The implementation of the EU legislation on food contact materials (FCM) requires the EU Member States to be able to conduct testing to ensure compliance with legal requirements. These tests are performed by laboratories designated for official controls In 2023, the EURL-FCM organised a PT round...

The implementation of the EU legislation on food contact materials (FCM) requires the EU member states to conduct tests ensuring that the legal requirements of the FCM are met. These tests are performed by laboratories designated for official controls. In line with Regulation (EU) 2017/625 on...

Climate change is making El Niños more frequent and intense. Therefore, understanding the effects of El-Niño-induced climatic events is essential to designing effective coping and adaptation strategies. We identify the impact of the 2015-16 El-Niño-induced large-scale drought on smallholder...

Climate change mitigation efforts face increasing demand for animal source food consumption and dairy in particular. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the differences in dairy consumption levels and underlying drivers on a global scale. We attempt to estimate drivers of milk consumption...

The investigation into the employment-generating capacity of industries has captured the interest of numerous scholars on a global scale. However, there is a paucity of literature on the impact of the capacity underutilization of dairy processing plants (DPPs) on employment multipliers. This...

The study has been carried out with the main focus of measuring the negative environmental impacts of milk powder secondary packaging throughout its lifecycle. The selected secondary packaging is a 400g full cream milk powder carton. In addition to that, calculating the monetary saving results...

Dairy systems, which are the main pillars of rural livelihoods in north-eastern Europe encounter ecological, economic, and political changes in their operating environments which threaten their capacity to provide dairy supply. As uncertainty increases, there is a need to increase understanding...

The European Union is a large producer of milk and dairy products. It is also a significant market for the consumption of dairy products, which is characterised by effective demand, and it significantly influences the markets of other food products. The main milk producers in the EU are Germany,...

We consider the impact of non-violent religious conflict on firm-level productivity. We zoom in on a Protestant and otherwise very homogeneous country: early twentieth century Denmark. We exploit variation due to the emergence of pietist movements who fought for the hearts and minds of Danes. In...

Despite the progress observed over the past decades, food and nutritional insecurity remain the prominent challenges in Ethiopia. In this respect, improved farming practices and productivity-enhancing agricultural technologies have been identified as pathways out of these problems; these...

Governments spend considerable resources providing goods directly. We show that such behavior may increase welfare when private suppliers have market power. We do this by studying the staggered rollout of hundreds of government milk "ration stores" in Mexico using a proprietary panel of...

I examine the effect of exogenous terms of trade shocks on an exchange rate by turning to New Zealand’s dairy auctions. Dairy is New Zealand’s largest export category, making up almost 20 percent of exports. Specifically, whole milk powder accounts for 6 to 11 percent of total exports, and...

The relative price of locally-produced milk and cheese in rural Paraguay is puzzling, apparently leaving opportunities for arbitrage. Despite requiring additional labor and inputs, the price of cheese per liter of milk is lower than the price of a liter of fluid milk. We propose a framework of...

For over a century, pediatricians, scientists, and industry players have sought to create an infant formula that would be as close as possible to human milk. Until recently, their efforts focused on “humanizing” cow’s milk by making its composition more similar to human milk. But in the...

We examine the effect of enforcing minimum quality standards (MQSs) on consumer health. In the late 1800s, the urban milk supply was regularly skimmed and diluted with water, but consumers could not easily determine its quality because dyes, caramel, and salt were added. To protect consumers,...

In the mid-19th century, the urban milk supply in the United States was regularly skimmed or diluted with water, reducing its nutritional value. At the urging of public health experts, cities across the country hired milk inspectors, who were tasked with collecting and analyzing milk samples...

The success of every corporate organization depends on marketing. In today's market, the dairy sector has significant growth potential. Marketing mix tactics, consumer survey marketing and competition analysis are some of the tools that can help a company succeed. Following these tips, a...

Im vorliegenden Gutachten sind die drei Warenströme von Fleisch und Fleischprodukten, Milch und Milchprodukten, sowie Eier und Eiprodukten in Deutschland dargestellt. Die dazu verfügbaren Daten wurden mit Hilfe einer systematischen Recherche nach Art eines Scoping Reviews zusammengetragen. Die...

Smallholder producers in developing countries often collaborate in teams that take advantage of scale economies and allocate surplus among members. We experimentally evaluate team-level incentive contracts for quality upgrading among Indian dairy cooperatives where there is a risk of free-riding...

Profitability in animal production is at the forefront of approaches and activities continuity, and the breakeven point, or equilibrium point from which profit generation begins, must be reached in the shortest possible time. In the present paper, the breakeven point is analyzed for cow's,...

This article presents the milk market in the period 2017-2021 highlighting aspects regarding the evolution of the herd (cows), milk production, price, consumption, import, export, market characteristics, the main dairy producers in Romania, but also a series of conclusions that are the basis of...

Analyses of spatial market integration contributes to the knowledge about market efficiency and provides information to policymakers, as the spatial integration of markets contributes to competitiveness and economic development. Although the integration of agri-food markets is widely discussed...

Milk tea is a well-known beverage that has been popular since 2011. The study investigates the factors that affect the consumer’s loyalty wherein consumer satisfaction and service quality are involved. Including the designs, tastes of milk tea, right measurement of ingredients, quality...

It’s 2021 and powdered human milk is all the rage. Not powdered coffee, powdered soup or powdered cow’s milk, but powdered human milk. Powdered human milk sounds like an infant food tech revolution, but actually, it is at least over a century old. The global comeback of powdered human milk...

An attempt was made to evaluate the engineering properties of an experimental sample of dry crystallized rice flake-milk pudding convenience mix (prepared using an in-house developed mechanical unit) against a control (prepared with manual stirring). Analysis of the proximate composition of the...

This study focuses on the milk tea craze that has first arrived in the country in 2010. This study aims to narrate the existing contexts of the COVID-19 crisis on small milk tea business owners in terms of the challenges they face amidst this pandemic. Using a qualitative approach, the...

In the ultra-high temperature (UHT) milk category, parent brands introduce line extensions as innovative product designs to address the competitiveness in the market. However, not knowing if consumers will purchase the product results in uncertainty for the product design and marketing team....

Production of livestock, poultry, and dairy are private sector-led industries contributing a third of the agricultural sector's output, despite relative neglect in terms of government support. The dual outbreak of African Swine Fever in 2019 and COVID19 pandemic in 2020 has renewed government...