Technology

RAPS launches new marinades

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...

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Strict regulation of bisphenol in food packaging

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...

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40 years of AVO Master Club

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...

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Live online seminar “Process monitoring of raw cured products and raw sausages”

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...

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Kaufland increases capacity in the meat packing center

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...

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New industrial grinder for frozen blocks and fresh raw materials

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.

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Sustainable, automated and digital solutions

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...

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Correctly implementing animal welfare in slaughterhouses

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...

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Dual-purpose chickens produce better meat

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...

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Fine grinding in meat processing

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...

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Pet food production directly on grids

Handtmann offers a comprehensive solution for the production of pet food sticks with product preparation and molding process directly on grids. Depending on the production volume, different technology from Handtmann Inotec can be used for product preparation. For the wolfing process, the Handtmann Inotec industrial wolf is suitable for shredding frozen blocks as well as fresh raw materials...

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