K+G Wetter spent four well-attended days at the Anuga FoodTec in Cologne. “We are extremely satisfied with the Anuga. Our salespeople and technicians were in conversation from morning to night - with long-standing customers from all over the world, but also with companies that do not yet work with our machines," reports K+G Wetter managing director Andreas Wetter...
Just in time for the 2024 barbecue season, spice expert RAPS has developed two new magic marinades. It gets smoky and spicy with the “Smoky Chipotle” flavor and spicy and hot with “Thai Curry”. The oil marinades are free of palm oil and are suitable not only for meat and poultry, but also for fish, vegetables and grilled cheese. This makes them ideal for the trend of conscious and sustainable nutrition...
The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) supports the European Commission's initiative to regulate bisphenol A more strictly in food contact materials across Europe in the future. On February 9, 2024, the EU Commission presented a corresponding draft regulation banning the use of bisphenol A in food contact materials...
The AVO Master Club is celebrating its birthday! The spice specialists’ popular customer magazine, “AVO Meisterclub Aktuell (AMCA for short),” is 40 years old this year. When the first issue appeared in 1984, it was not yet foreseeable that the magazine would become an integral part of AVO's field service equipment and popular reading material in butcher shops all over Germany...
Which aspects are crucial in terms of process monitoring and quality assurance in the production of raw sausages and red ham? Answers to these and other questions are provided by the QS Academy's live online seminar "Process monitoring of raw cured products and raw sausages", for which only a few participant places are available...
Automation has significantly improved Kaufland's meat packing center in Osterfeld, Germany. By implementing a customized tray denesting and product loading solution from Qupaq, Kaufland can now achieve output from one packaging line that previously required two. This has translated into cost savings in staff and ongoing maintenance...
Handtmann Inotec now offers the latest generation of grinding technology in the form of the IW series for the production of meat products and pet food. Typical applications in the area of meat and sausage products or meat analogues are salami, minced meat and boiled sausage as well as fine meat products - and in pet food, wet food, sticks and bites as well as chunks in gravy.
Under the motto “Multiply Your Value”, the MULTIVAC Group is presenting its broad portfolio of innovative processing and packaging solutions for the food industry at Anuga FoodTec 2024. In focus: the comprehensive slicing portfolio as well as holistic lines, which, thanks to high levels of digitalization and automation, help to make production processes efficient and resource-saving.Visitors will find the MULTIVAC Group in Hall 8.1 (Stand C10) as well as in a tent on the outdoor area, where the processing machines be shown live...
When it comes to animal welfare issues when slaughtering cattle and pigs, experience and expertise are necessary in order to be able to adequately assess the associated processes and identify critical areas. An in-person training course from the QS Academy focuses on the topic of animal protection during slaughter...
Dual-purpose chickens have received particular attention since the ban on killing chicks in Germany in January 2022. Both the eggs and the meat can be used with them. Dual-purpose chickens are an ethical alternative, but what about the taste? As part of a research project at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, led by the Naturland Association of Baden-Württemberg, students from the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) in Heilbronn were called upon to assess the sensory properties of meat and eggs from organic production...
Fine grinding, emulsification and homogenization are the particular strengths of the variable and powerful Handtmann Inotec grinding technology. A wide variety of preliminary products, from liquid to viscous to hard, tough or fibrous components, are powerfully finely chopped, homogenized and emulsified...