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This Industrial Bioprocessing Alert features innovations in meat processing and packaging. As concerns on safety in meat and meat products and awareness about their health effects increase, the industry is pressured to meet corresponding consumer demands besides the growing market demand. The innovations toward this end that are profiled in this al...

This edition of Industrial Bioprocessing Alert features innovations in industrial fermentation, which is increasingly important as the trend moves toward green technology. Fermentation allows the use of environmentally friendly bio-based feedstock. Advances in industrial biotechnology and synthetic biology also drive innovations in fermentation tec...

Food waste management has gained increased emphasis in recent times, especially in the context of the recently adopted United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The initiative is driven mainly by the need to address declining natural resources, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and to reduce waste disposal into landfills. The current study gi...

This edition of Industrial Bioprocessing TechVision Opportunity Engine (TOE) features innovations in flavoring agents for beverages, which include flavor masking agents, sweeteners, flavor enhancers, and flavor tools. Growing demand for natural flavors, low-sugar and low-calorie beverages are among the drivers for the beverage flavoring agents indu...

Encapsulation enables one active compound or more to be individualized and to carry out its specific functionality and deliverability. Food encapsulation helps maintain the organoleptic characteristics and efficacy of the ingredients. The choice of carrier material is very important it directly contributes to the efficacy of the encapsulated produ...

This edition of Industrial Bioprocessing features recent technological innovations in the wine industry, which have been driven by rising consumer demand for high-quality wines, and have been attributed with health benefits. Most of the recent innovations are in control and monitoring technologies that improve wine making or grapevine growing throu...

This Growth Opportunity Analysis presents an assessment of the current trends and predictions expected to impact the European processed food and beverage market and associated ingredients in 2016. With respect to the European food and beverage market and its associated value chain, the key trends expected to have a major impact on industry growth i...

This issue features innovations in technologies in producing functional beverages. Increasing healthcare costs and concerns about healthy and natural diets are driving the functional beverages market. The main technologies being developed are in beverage processing and retaining the properties of the bioactive ingredients in beverages without compr...

This edition of Industrial Bioprocessing features innovations in technologies for preserving food, which is increasingly important due to changing lifestyles and eating habits and increased consumer awareness. The main technology trend in the industry is toward preserving the nature and nutritional value of the food without using conventional chemi...