The National Coffee Association (NCA) in the US has launched an interactive job board, the ‘Coffee Career Center.’ With a focus on coffee industry companies and professionals, the Coffee Career Center offers NCA members, other industry associations and the industry at large a targeted resource for online recruitment. “The coffee industry represents nearly 2 per […]
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Peet’s Coffee has pledged US$250,000 to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), to fund the Peet’s Coffee Pilot Roastery, which will be located in a first-of-its-kind Coffee Center at UC Davis. The pioneering centre and pilot roastery will be devoted to post-harvest coffee research and engineering. “With this gift, we are firmly following in Alfred
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A paper published in Toxicology Reports suggests that roasting and grinding coffee could expose workers to levels of diacetyl – a compound associated with chronic lung disease – that exceed recommended short-term occupational exposure levels. Diacetyl is found in flavouring added to products in the food industry but is also now known to formed naturally,
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The National Coffee Association (NCA) in the US recently filed comments with California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), the state regulatory agency that enforces Proposition 65. The NCA comments focused on misapplications of the law that have made coffee the subject of claims which forced the industry into court. Coffee is not alone,
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As elsewhere in Europe, pods are the single most important factor driving the development of the market in France. Héloïse Terraud, Secretary General of the Syndicat Français du Café, which represents the 20 largest roasters in the country, told C&CI that the main trend that is identifiable in the coffee sector in France was the
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Brazilian coffee consumption continues to grow, and is now doing so at a rate of 3 per cent per year, according to the Brazilian Coffee Roasters Association (ABIC). According to Coffidential, the latest data released by the association shows that the major factors behind this expansion are out-of-home consumption, new and innovative coffee products and higher quality
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