Reader’s Digest November 2019

In November 2019, we published the following articles:

• In California, the crop was reduced due to weather conditions.
• In Spain, the crop has achieved record levels this year, with an average yield locally exceeding 100 mT/ha.
• The processing season is finished in Italy with a smaller quantity than contracted due to bad weather conditions.
• Plastcorp, a French company, based in the South East, is specialized in producing multilayer plastic bottles with an oxygen barrier.
• Olam International decided to downsize its tomato operations at the Lemoore plant.
• "Red Gold from Europe – Excellence of EU preserved tomatoes" is one of the most ambitious international promotion programmes.
• In Argentina, the 2020 season is likely to see an increase in planted surfaces.
• CLFP published the final results for the 2019 crop in California.
• In Italy, Conserve Italia is investing 7 million Euros for a new modern line dedicated to the production of pulp and passata in Tetra Recart packaging.
• Graco and Schoeller Allibert' s new cooperation combines Schoeller Allibert's new Combo Fructus and Graco's SaniForce bin uploader,
• Lycored introduced HueFinder, an online color-matching assistant to help its customers find the hue they want for their products.
• The global market for ketchup is experiencing a small slowdown in the last years.
• The results of  a new study show that it is possible to produce lycopene with an AI-driven automated system.
•  WPTC Crop update as of 19 November 2019.
• The 7^th edition of the Filo Rosso del Pomodoro will take place in Naples on 29^th November.
• A trade agreement between EU and Singapore has been endorsed and will be effective from 21^st November.
• In Turkey, the commercial context is becoming increasingly restricted, and the export shipments saw a significant decline this last year.
• The USDA issued a federal order imposing restrictions on see imports, in order to prevent the introduction of the ToBRFV in the USA.
• Results were lower than originally forecasted for Agrofusion this year.
• The Spanish food company GBFoods acquired the European group Continental Foods, its entire portfolio of culinary local brands and its five production facilities.
• Customers are looking for new (online) tools, like Open Food Facts, to guide them in choosing the products they buy. 5 European countries went even further by deploying the Nutri-Score system.
• The Open Foods Facts database has been since used by a number a food related applications such as Yuka, which now has more than 8.5 million users. Nestle announced it will use Nutri-Score in Europe, and The Netherlands intend to recommend its use as of 2021.

 
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