Archives for August 17, 2022

Botanical yields fall as climate change affects harvests

Extreme weather events from heat waves and droughts to ‘hundred-year storms’ happening every two years, the impact of climate change is obvious. And few industries are witnessing the impact as much as botanical supply chain.

Watermark for food: Natural Trace looks to solve traditional food traceability issues with in-product tagging tech

Singapore traceability technology firm Natural Trace believes it has pioneered a world-first category of in-product tagging based on DNA markers integrated directly within food and beverage products, creating a watermark of sorts that could solve...

‘Refreshing renewals’: Kirin ramps up marketing revamps for non-alcoholic beer and whiskeys

Beverage giant Kirin has been focusing extra marketing efforts into its non-alcoholic beer option Kirin Green’s Free and its own-brand whiskey Riku in a new push to expand market share.

Speaker Spotlights

'Meat is not the enemy': Why the plant-based sector might not be the future of protein – Growth Asia Summit

One of Australia’s leading nutrition experts and senior CEOs will be making the case for meat at our forthcoming Growth Asia Summit, in the wake of an explosion of interest in the plant-based protein sector.

New data: South Korea’s health functional food production value up nearly 20% last year

South Korea’s Health Functional Food (HFF) production value was up nearly 20 per cent in year 2021, latest data from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) showed.

Quality control: Industry sets self-regulating standards to safeguard NMN quality in China

A group of companies making nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) and industry big names such as hyaluronic acid specialist Bloomage Biotechnology have published a set of technical standards to safeguard the quality of NMN products sold in China.