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Beverage Packaging

HeatGenie’s single-serve beverages self-heat

A twist of the can, and two minutes is all it takes for consumers to enjoy hot tea or soup in a single-serve container.
November 29, 2017
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Coffee, tea, or hot soup on the go? A new packaging innovation promises exactly that. The HeatGenie simply and quickly heats beverages with a twist of the lid through a solid-state thermal reaction.
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Cybersecurity

How food and beverage processors can fight cyberattacks

CEOs tend to look at a cybersecurity as a one-time investment, but imagine the results if your virus definitions were last updated Jan. 1, 2015.
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Wayne Labs
November 29, 2017
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Knowledge of how attacks occur, new tools coming on the scene, and long-term investments in cybersecurity can all help processors stand a better chance of keeping their plants safely up and running.
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tofu

Researchers develop alcoholic beverage made from tofu whey

Team from National University of Singapore file patent for unique, zero-waste approach of converting byproduct of tofu making into an alcoholic drink rich in isoflavones.
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Crystal Lindell
November 28, 2017
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A research team from the National University of Singapore has successfully turned tofu whey — a liquid that is generated from the production of tofu and is often discarded — into what they describe as a tasty alcoholic beverage called Sachi.
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Food fraud

How barcodes can help fight food fraud

Food ranks among the top five most valuable counterfeit markets
Sean Riley
September 28, 2017
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Within the layered approach to brand protection are overt technologies — barcodes, holograms, watermarks, embossing and etching — and covert technologies — taggants, UV, infrared and fluorescent inks, Smart technology and radio frequency identification (RFID).
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