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Global Exports of Tomato Paste, Updated May 23, 2022

24/05/2022

Comparison of monthly exports of tomato paste (HS code 200290) over past two years, comparison with the previous three marketing years With a total quantity slightly higher than 3.15 million metric tonnes (mT) of tomato paste exported over the period March 2021 - February 2022, TOP10 exports of tomato paste were lower (-8.6%, about 295,000 mT) than in the previous twelve months (Mar.2020...

EU: Revision to the Food Information to Consumers (FIC) Regulation

12/05/2022

Front of Pack Nutrition Labeling (FOPNL), mention of place origin For several years, supporters of the Nutri-Score and other front-of-pack nutrition labeling models, such as the NutrInform system promoted by Italy, have been fighting over the choice of a single, harmonized system at a European level. In May 2020, a report on the use of complementary forms of expression and presentation of...

The impact of front-of-package nutrition labelling systems on tomato products

11/05/2022

From the presentation given by Pr. Montaña Cámara – Universidad Complutense de Madrid, during the 14th World Processing Tomato Congress (March 2022, held online from San Juan, Argentina): “Consumers' food choice and healthfulness perception. The impact of front-of-package nutrition labeling systems (FoPL, or f-o-p) on tomato products”. ...

The 2022 season: an unprecedented increase in the price of raw tomatoes

28/04/2022

At nearly USD 107 /mT, the overall average value of raw materials has jumped by 21% compared to the average of the three previous seasons. The tension between increasing industrial demand and decreasing agricultural supply, uncertain weather conditions and increased climatic risks, a difficult water supply, extraordinary increases in the costs of all inputs, competition with less risky or...

Climate change and its effects on Europe, the USA and Latin America

26/04/2022

From the presentation given by Fernando Santibáñez Quezada, Professor at the Universidad de Chile, during the 14th World Processing Tomato Congress (March 2022, held online from San Juan, Argentina). This is an opportunity to talk about climate change, an important phenomenon affecting world agriculture. I would like to start with an update about what is going on in...

What is happening? What can we expect?

21/04/2022

“Those who failed to learn from history are doomed to repeat it” From the presentation given by Martin Stilwell, during the 14th World Processing Tomato Congress (March 2022, held online from San Juan, Argentina). Talking you today is a particularly difficult task as we are looking hopefully at the end of the Covid pandemic, we are living with an unstable climate, we are seeing...

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