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Probiota tech highlights: Smart toilets, glowing bacteria

Probiota tech highlights: Smart toilets, glowing bacteria

By Hank Schultz

Probiotic innovation isn’t all about biology. Presenters at the recent Probiota Americas event were given an insight into smart toilets, ingestible sensors, and new species identification technology.

Can DSM Firmenich merger deliver on its synergistic promise?

Can DSM Firmenich merger deliver on its synergistic promise?

By Shane Starling

DSM and Firmenich’s mooted 2023 ‘Merger of Equals’ will create a nutrition, food ingredients and fragrances behemoth with 277 years of collective business experience and a combined annual revenue pushing towards €12 billion (£10.2bn).

EFSA says CBD safety data “cannot currently be established”

EFSA says CBD safety data “cannot currently be established”

By Shane Starling

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued a wide-ranging opinion calling for more safety data for CBD products that could challenge the Novel Foods status of many offerings in the nascent category across the bloc and beyond.