Reports

Nello Alba, the Italian CEO of Oranfrizer said: “In Asia the import of European products is growing, their food styles are moving to westwar, healthy and safe flavors”.
Inside P & S and Super City the red and citrus juices are becoming ambassadors of Made in Italy.

There is now a newsroom on the websites of both BIOFACH, the World’s Leading Trade Fair for Organic Food, and VIVANESS, International Trade Fair for Natural and Organic Cosmetics, providing a new offer of information for the broad trade PUBLIC.

With southern Mexico still reeling from the “earthquake of a century” that killed at least 90 people and has affected 2.3 million people in the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca alone, the country is also recovering from another disaster that has affected agricultural crops.

Update: Hurricane Irma, more devastating than predicted
The powerful Hurricane Irma, which has already reached category 5 - the highest category on the Saffir-Simpson scale - is headed for the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, and Florida on the United States' east coast.

Vegetable freshness is very important both for the catering business and domestic consumption. Supermarkets often spray water on leaf vegetables to make them look fresh and, most of all, to make it impossible to assess how long they've been on the shelf for. Nonetheless, it's not possible to store these vegetables for too long as they can rot quickly. It is therefore important to use quick and easy monitoring tools that can assess freshness.

Frutas Montosa received the two star "Superior Taste Award" awarded by the prestigious International Taste and Quality Institute (iTQi), based in Brussels, which is the leading organization devoted to the tasting and promotion of superior-tasting food products. With the participation of about 1,000 companies from all over the world, it is a seal of great recognition for food companies.

It has been a tense week for the Caribbean islands and the SE coast of the US this last week as they brace for Hurricane Irma, hailed as being one of the most dangerous tropical storm ever to hit the Atlantic.

These days Origine Group started to ship pear “Pera Italia” to Far East markets (India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong), which showed interest in this typical Italian excellence production. Shipments follow the product samples sent by air. The varieties concerned are William and Santa Maria.

ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA will feature a hi-tech dimension this year with SMART HORTICULTURE ASIA taking place on the trade show-floor and a strong contingent of leading technology companies exhibiting at the Hong Kong event.