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9 June 2010 | By British Soft Drinks Association
The British Soft Drinks Association has elected a new president, Roger White, Chief Executive of A G Barr, at its AGM on 8 June 2010. He will lead the soft drinks industry trade body for the next two years.
28 May 2010 | By Oxoid
Oxoid today announced that the Remel RapID™ microbial identification systems are now available alongside the Oxoid range.
17 May 2010 | By Nestlé
As a further step in its commitment to fight the major issue of deforestation, Nestlé has entered into a partnership with The Forest Trust (TFT)...
13 May 2010 | By
Halo Support Services beat off fierce competition to win the ‘Innovation in the food sector’ category at the recent Food Processing Awards.
11 May 2010 | By Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
Oxoid, a world leading microbiology brand, announced that the latest edition of its journal, Culture (Volume 31, No 1), is now available.
23 April 2010 | By
New research from Business Insights has revealed that despite costs of over $10m to gain the right to claim that a food or drink product has a health benefit, investing is worthwhile.
23 March 2010 | By Greg Sutcliffe, Burkert Fluid Control Systems
We have successfully sized the steam control valve, but during commissioning and testing the warm up times are sluggish. Why? Well is might be a case of needing to get things out, before we can hope to put things in! We know that "new" steam is delivered, as the "existing"…
23 March 2010 | By Greg Sutcliffe, Burkert Fluid Control Systems
When dry saturated steam comes into contact with a surface at a lower temperature than itself (let’s take the example of a jacketed cooking vessel) it will give up its latent energy and returns to condensate. Upon condensing, the steam’s volume reduces by approximately 1673 times; depending on the steam…
23 March 2010 | By Oxoid
Oxoid, a world leading microbiology brand, today announced the launch of Brilliance™ Staph 24 Agar - a selective and diagnostic chromogenic medium for the isolation and enumeration of coagulase-positive staphylococci (CPS) in foods, within 24 hours.
23 March 2010 | By Oxoid
Oxoid has launched Brilliance™ CampyCount Agar, a new, highly selective, easy-to-read chromogenic medium specifically designed for the identification and enumeration of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli in poultry and related samples.
12 March 2010 | By Watson-Marlow Pumps Group
Watson-Marlow Masosine MR and SPS series positive displacement pumps have been installed at the Fakenham, Norfolk plant of chocolate and confectionary specialist, Kinnerton. The first Masosine pump was introduced to replace a gear pump that was damaging product on an Easter egg production line, with a second model acquired recently…
22 February 2010 | By Greg Sutcliffe, Burkert Fluid Control Systems
Meeting a steam plant for the first time is a bit like meeting a person for the first time (stay with me here!). Before can you consciously think, just a quick glance and you have formed an early impression and evaluated that poor person, or…err….steam system. For me it’s like…
15 February 2010 | By Greg Sutcliffe, Burkert Fluid Control Systems
Are you abusing your steam control valves through the unnecessary practise of OVER SIZING? We have choices here people and the key to success is having the right flow conditions from the start.
15 February 2010 | By Greg Sutcliffe, Burkert Fluid Control Systems
Back in the day, before the advent of the internet, and we all lived our lives in glorious monochrome, my beloved mentor explained that for the decent steam guys, there was only one book – “The Efficient Use of Steam” by Oliver Lyle, c.1947.
2 February 2010 | By Synbiosis
Synbiosis, a world-leading manufacturer of automated microbiological systems, is delighted to introduce ProcUV, its new UV imaging accessory for the ProtoCOL 2 system. ProcUV permits instant imaging of fluorescent colonies and plaques so they can be automatically counted or analysed by ProtoCOL 2, thus saving time and improving accuracy of…
