The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is basically in a good position in terms of transparency and independence. This is confirmed by a study carried out by scientists from Maastricht University on behalf of the European Parliament. As
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RAJA from Ettlingen was a guest at EMPACK in Hamburg from 14 to 15 June. The B2B mail order company presented environmentally friendly packaging at the two-day trade fair and positioned itself as an expert in the industry with a presentation on the topic of TCO and CO2. The two-day event offered
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Although the total area under leaf lettuce has hardly changed in Germany in recent years, there have been considerable shifts within the range. In particular, lettuce areas have been greatly reduced, while lettuce hearts and hydroponic cultivation of
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With the summer weather and warmer nights, cucumber production is in full swing. The supply volumes of both German produce and cucumbers from the Benelux region are currently high. For weeks, prices have been at a low level and can hardly move out of the
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The bad weather continues to affect the Bel Paese - an official estimate of the damage is still pending. In Emilia-Romagna in particular, May will certainly not be seen as a pre-summer blissful month, but rather due to the devastation caused by the floods and subsequent storms in
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IMIDA, Murcian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research and Development, presented new stone fruit varieties to producers and technicians in week 25, including peaches, paraguayos and plums, which have a high flavour quality and are better adapted to the
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There are currently several problems at the Cologne wholesale market. The biggest of these is the announcement by the city administration that it does not want to continue operations beyond 31 December 2025. In addition, the decision to relocate the wholesale market to Marsdorf was taken more than 15 years ago,
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This corresponds roughly to the area of the city of Dortmund. According to Information und Technik Nordrhein-Westfalen, the state's statistical office, North Rhine-Westphalia had the largest area of open-air vegetable cultivation in Germany in 2022 (Germany: 125,200 ha). read more

For a long time, celery - also known as pale celery or celery in the bunch - led a niche existence in the German vegetable assortment. As recently as 2012, celery accounted for only 0.22% of household vegetable purchases. By 2022, the purchase volumes had more than doubled.
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Despite the challenging market environment, Edeka Nord can look back on a respectable financial year 2022. Edeka Nord's consolidated sales were around 3.73 billion euros. "The Russian invasion of Ukraine in particular affected us and the entire industry in 2022. In this challenging
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OneThird, an AI-based food tech company that combats the annual waste of one-third of all food produced, announced the deployment of its AI-powered scanning technology in Bakker Barendrecht's supply chain. The company, which is part of Greenyard, is
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Italian fruit and vegetable exports have recovered strongly in the first quarter of 2023: compared to 2022, volumes have increased by 6.5 % and values by 10.7 %. Vegetables and pulses (+20.8 %) and citrus fruits (+15.6 %) are particularly noteworthy, fresh fruit also recorded
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Consumers want to eat locally grown blueberries. Sekoya's varieties can revitalise local production and bridge the gap to out-of-season supply, says Hans Liekens, value chain and retail manager at Sekoya. read more

A recent study by the GVM Gesellschaft für Verpackungsmarktforschung and the ifeu-Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg gGmbH on behalf of eight industry associations shows that the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the German packaging volume will increase by 94 % by 2045.
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The European Parliament adopted by a large majority (447 votes in favour, 142 against and 31 abstentions) the report presented by Marlene Mortler (EPP, DE) on "Food security and the long-term resilience of European agriculture". In
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Fyffes is aware of its responsibility to continuously improve social and labour standards and to promote sustainable labour practices. The entire team around Genivaldo Pereira, General Manager Melon Operations, is all the more pleased that the transformation of the
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The development of new biological solutions that provide growers with an effective means of pest control, especially in citrus and persimmon, is one of the goals that the Anecoop cooperative group has set itself in close collaboration with Koppert, a leading company in
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With a consumption of over 30 kg per person in the marketing year 2021/22, tomatoes are the Germans' favourite vegetable. They also include processed products such as ketchup. At 101,800 t, the harvest volume of domestic tomatoes decreased slightly. This is a continuation of the trend since 2019. The
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Biobest's Trap-Eye™ sticky trap monitoring system, unveiled at GreenTech Amsterdam 2023, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to provide automated, accurate, fast and affordable IPM scouting, has won the Innovation Award, according to the
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The Spanish supply of sugar melons, i.e. Galia, Cantaloupe and honeydew melons, from early cultivation is high this season. Due to a lack of demand in Germany caused by the weather, the quantities piled up on the market and pushed the prices down. For weeks, sales have been
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