Jeff Elliott examines the safety demands of sanitary atmospheric tanks in food processing, where even slight pressure or vacuum excursions from temperature cycling, filling or fire exposure can compromise vessel integrity. He reports on BS&B Safety Systems’ GHI™ gasketed rupture disk, a self-contained, clamp-fitted design that dispenses with a safety head and bursts at pressures […]

Researchers at EMBL Barcelona have coaxed bovine embryonic stem cells to self-organise into three-dimensional tissue containing muscle, nerve and blood vessel cells simultaneously – a development with implications for how the cultivated meat sector might one day manufacture whole-cut, steak-like products rather than minced formats.