Food & Beverage

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  The promise of connected packaging: from brand protection to consumer engagement

  How digital, connected packaging can seamlessly combine customer engagement and product authentication.

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  OECD seeks tighter control over free trade zones

  The OECD has drawn up recommendations on free trade zones in a bid to stop them being used for illicit trade.

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  India’s tea agency seeks traceability system tenders

  Tea Board India is seeking tenders from companies who can help provide a traceability system to protect the supply chain.

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  UK seeing spike in food crime reports, according to NFCU data

  There were 1,193 reports of food crime in the UK in 2018 – the highest level since the horsemeat scandal in 2013.

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  Organic grain fraud farmer sentenced to two years in prison

  A Missouri man has become the fifth farmer to be jailed in a $142m scam involving organic corn and soybeans.

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  TruTag raises $7.5m in third-round financing

  TruTag has raised $7.5m in a Series C that will be used to continue the roll-out of its ‘edible barcode’ tech.

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