Food (Sustainability & Environment)

Grass-Fed Beef Isn’t Greener: Emissions Match Factory-Farmed Cattle

cms_emilf — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:41:11 +0000

May

2025

Grass-fed cattle farming may seem more idyllic than high-density feed lots, but it isn’t any better for the climate, new research finds.

CEP: News Update

cms_emilf — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:40:56 +0000

Cutting Coal Provides the Biggest Benefit of Last Year’s EPA Regulations; An Atomically Small Addition to a Catalyst for Greener Ethylene Oxide; Grass-Fed Beef Isn’t Greener: Emissions Match Factory-Farmed Cattle; Getting Around the Additive Problem in Plastic Recycling; Beneficial bacteria can survive alongside agricultural chemicals in new emulsions that could be used to deliver multiple treatments to crops in one swoop.

May

2025

Early mRNA Vaccines Against Avian Flu Show Promise in Animal Trials

cms_colbt — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:27:04 +0000

March 7, 2025

Research at the CDC and elsewhere continues to advance, including human trials that to study safety and immunogenicity of an H5N1 mRNA vaccine.

AIChE Annual Meeting’s Co-located Conferences Offer Specialized Insights into Dynamic Fields

cms_colbt — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:37:35 +0000

January 21, 2025

Four co-located conferences provided detailed looks at fast-moving areas, including food engineering, translational medicine, cell therapy and immunotherapy, and data analysis.

Transforming the Food System Into a Carbon Sink

Karen Simpson — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:44:21 +0000

November

2023

A new analysis suggests that it would be theoretically possible to sequester up to 33 gigatons of carbon each year in the food system.

CEP: News Update

Karen Simpson — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:44:13 +0000

Steam Condenser Coating Could Net Huge Efficiency Improvement; A Surprising Barrier to the Green Energy Job Transition; Developing a Group of Microbes to Break Down Plastic Waste; Transforming the Food System Into a Carbon Sink; E. coli Generate Electricity from Wastewater

November

2023

Catalyzing Commercialization: Novel RNAi Technology Targets Leading Global Crop Pest

Karen Simpson — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:37:14 +0000

Virginia-based AgroSpheres is developing pest control technologies that are poised to counter the fall armyworm threat.

November

2023

September 2023 CEP Preview

Karen Simpson — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 21:18:38 +0000

September 22, 2023

This issue, a look at AI's potential for discovering new food proteins, tips on applying process safety principles to food processing, best practices for pressure transmitters, and much more.

Special Section: Food Engineering

Angelica Dinh — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 18:40:16 +0000

Download the complete 15-page special section.

September

2023

Special Section on Food Engineering: Improving Safety and Sustainability in the Food Industry

Karen Simpson — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 18:58:40 +0000

This special section discusses emerging technologies in food engineering and strategies to improve sustainability, in addition to process safety.

September

2023

Special Section on Food Engineering: Apply Process Safety Principles to Food Processing

Karen Simpson — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 18:58:40 +0000

The food industry can benefit in many ways from applying process safety principles like inherently safer design to its facilities.

September

2023

Special Section on Food Engineering: Extracting Sustainable Food Sources

Karen Simpson — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 18:58:40 +0000

91��˶��Ƶ separation processes can provide sustainable alternatives in food production.

September

2023

Special Section on Food Engineering: AI-Driven Protein Discovery for Functional Ingredients

Karen Simpson — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 18:58:40 +0000

The global food system needs novel technologies to cope with the increasing demand for protein-rich foods.

September

2023

Food Engineers “Meat” Their Match

Karen Simpson — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 18:56:07 +0000

Significant engineering and development will be required before humane and sustainable meat options are indistinguishable from their counterparts.

September

2023

Machine Learning Predicts Food Crisis from News Articles

Karen Simpson — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:10:57 +0000

April

2023

A new machine-learning algorithm can predict looming food insecurity more accurately than experts or traditional models alone.