Potato News from Sweden

In the U.S., quick-serve operators are scrambling to figure out how they'll abide by the menu-labeling mandate requiring calorie counts be posted on menuboards.

BASF Plant Science identified extremely small quantities of Amadea potatoes in Amflora fields planted in Northern Sweden during the course of the regular in-house quality controls.

La Comisión Europea (CE) ha confirmado hoy el cultivo de una variedad de patata genéticamente modificada no permitida por la UE en campos de Suecia y ha pedido explicaciones a la compañía responsable, la alemana BASF. El portavoz comunitario de Sanida...

On the 12th of August, 2010, Rosenqvists with office and workshop in Gärds Köpinge, Sweden acquired all assets of Potato Processing Machinery AB ( PPM AB ) including patents, design drawings, historical project information, registered brand name and ot...

Energy efficiency is a major consideration for many food processors concerned about optimizing operations without further impacting the environment. If processors can reduce their energy usage while maintaining production yield, food quality and equipme...

Lantmännen Solanum has sold its potato processing operation to a group of growers. The reception, storage and sorting for external clients will however remain within Lantmännen Solanum. The potato processing within Lantmännen Solanum has in recent ye...

Rosenqvists, a Swedish supplier of machines to the food industry, is teaming up with a group of experts, to create complete and value-added solutions for the food industry. The focus is on processing lines for chips, snacks and French fries.The company...

Seven years ago, alarms were sounded that acrylamide, a compound found in foods heated at high temperatures, could cause cancer. However, studies have not uncovered links to colon cancer or breast cancer, and now comes word from a Swedish study indicat...

Aardappelcoöperatie Agrico en het Zweedse Lantmännen Lantbruk hebben de onderneming Agrico Nordic opgericht. De nieuwe onderneming richt zich op de productie en verkoop van pootgoed in Zweden.Agrico Nordic wordt exclusief vertegenwoordiger van de rasse...

The potato is set to have its own academy seated in Alingsås in western Sweden. The idea behind the academy, Academia Solanum Tuberosum, is to have representatives from the entire industry who will work to spread knowledge about the potato in a variet...