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Nestlé is committed to supporting im- proved and diversified farmer incomes through its sustainability programs. Furthermore, Nestlé will implement new living income programs for farm- ers in its value chain to make farming more attractive. Later this year, Nestlé will unveil specific plans for its coffee and cocoa supply chains.
To support young people who are passionate about farming, Nestlé is launching a new training platform in November to attract and train the next generation of farmers. The training will focus on regenerative agriculture prac- tices and improving the resilience of farms to climate change for more than 40,000 farmers participating in one of Nestlé’s agripreneurship programs.
Nestlé’s regeneration efforts are launching under the umbrella title of ‘Generation Regeneration’ focused on farmers, youth, consumers and its own employees.
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comes with initial risks and new costs. Nestlé will support farmers by co- investing with them, facilitating lend- ing or helping them obtain loans for specific equipment. The company will also work with partners to fund pilot projects to test and learn how best to advance regenerative agriculture.
Pay premiums for regenerative agriculture goods: Nestlé will offer premiums for many raw materials pro- duced using regenerative agriculture practices and buy bigger quantities. This means rewarding farmers not only for the quantity and quality of ingredi- ents, but also for the benefits they pro- vide to the environment through soil protection, water management and carbon sequestration.
Today, Nestlé published the most im- portant regenerative farming practices that the company wants to promote. They include, among others, enhance- ment of biodiversity, soil conservation,
regeneration of water cycles and in- tegration of livestock. Agriculture ac- counts for nearly two-thirds of Nestlé’s total greenhouse gas emissions, with dairy and livestock making up about half of that. In dairy, for example, Nestlé is assessing cutting edge sci- ence and technology to reduce emis- sions at farm level. The company will start working with 30 reference dairy farms in 12 countries to test scalable, climate-friendly and regenerative agri- cultural practices that help achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Nestlé is also working with farmers to select and cultivate nutritious and tasty pulse varieties to be used as milk alterna- tives.
Supporting farming communi- ties through new living income and youth programs: Regenerative agri- culture contributes to a regenerative food system, which should be fair and transparent for all participants.
ith more than 3,300 members, the test germs for testing packaging steriliza- VDMA is the largest network organiza- tion devices for aseptic filling machines”.
tion and important voice for mechanical engineering in Germany and Europe. The IVLV/VDMA document “Hygienic filling machines of class V according to VDMA: Testing of packaging sterilization devices for their efficiency” has been revised.
The document specifies test microorganisms for testing of sterilization devices of this machine class and defines the procedure for carrying out a count reduction test or an end-point test.
This document was compiled in 2002 under the title ‘Testing of aseptic systems with packaging ma- terial sterilization devices for their efficiency’ in the VDMA working group “Interface problems with aseptic systems” in consultation with the Industrial Association for Food Technology and Packaging (In- dustrievereinigungfürLebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackunge.V.).
Compared to the previous version from 2008, the following changes were made:
• Restructuring of the trade association publication • Alignment of definitions with other VDMA techni-
cal association publications
• Revision of the section “Requirements for
• Revision of section “Procedure for inoculation of the packaging”.
• Revision of section “Germ reduction test” (addi- tions to the practice with machines with multiple treatment stations)
• Revision of the section “Endpoint test” including the calculation example in the appendix (addition to the recommendation for the determination of the initial germination scale; additional criterion for the evaluation of the stability of the steriliza- tion process)
• Updating and addition of references
• Deletion of appendix “Growing conditions for Ba-
cillus subtilis SA 22 and Bacillus atrophaeus and
preparation of the spore suspension”.
• Update of annex “Sources of spore suspensions”. • Additional appendix “Example of a sensitivity
test of the spore suspension to the disinfection medium- using hydrogen peroxide as an exam- ple”.
An overview of all publications of the working group on the topic of low-germ and aseptic filling with links for free download is also available.
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