Food and Beverages Tech Review: Specials Magazine

A commercially astute sustainability expert, Ollie Rosevear pushes the boundaries to mitigate the environmental impact of Fuller, Smith & Turner. A staunch advocate of cross-industry collaboration, Rosevear leads numerous initiatives to bring together key stakeholders across the supply chain. In an interview with Food Business Review Europe, Rosevear sheds light on the importance of sustainable sourcing and the best practices to reduce carbon footprints in the supply chain. Can you briefly outline your background and the professional path that led you to your current role as the director of nutrition? I began my career in hospitality and later transitioned into energy management, where I worked with some of the major corporates with a focus on energy and carbon reduction. This eventually led me to a role in operational environmental management at Costa Coffee, where I worked for over 12 years. I then had a short stint with an organization called SailGP, ensuring their operations were as sustainable as possible. I currently serve as the director of sustainability at Fuller, Smith & Turner, emphasizing implementing the environmental, social, and governance program and improving social and environmental sustainability within the business. What are some of the significant challenges to achieving sustainability in the food industry? It is essential for businesses to undertake efforts to minimize the impact on the environment and combat climate change. This can be achieved by revising the company’s operational missions, reducing emissions during product delivery, optimizing energy usage, and minimizing the waste generated from offerings. A substantial part of our environmental footprint lies within our supply chain, so working closely with suppliers who adapt to sustainable practices is vital. Additionally, coffee production regions are also expected to be affected due to climate change and cause a shortage in yield. This may potentially disrupt our sourc

For nearly three decades, Unisensor has stood at the forefront of food diagnostics in Europe, reshaping how the dairy and food industries approach safety, compliance, and quality. Founded in 1997 by Belgian biochemist Dr. Benoît Granier, the company started as a spin-out from the University of Liège. “We began with a simple idea to move testing out of the central lab and closer to where decisions are made,” Dr. Granier recalls. That founding vision continues to define the company’s approach today. From the outset, Unisensor has built a reputation for delivering fast, reliable, and user-friendly testing kits that combine European build quality with practical, field-ready design. Its portfolio, including DipSensor, TwinSensor, Aurox, Extenso, and Beadyplex, covers the entire dairy chain, from farms and collection points to factories and laboratories. Today, Unisensor serves a diverse client base that includes dairy processors, cooperatives, intake labs, veterinary practices, and confectionery producers. The product line is built for purpose and validated against strict regulatory frameworks worldwide such as EU MRLs, Codex, and local importer rules. DipSensor, a pocket-sized, no-pipette test, provides clear go-or-no-go results in under ten minutes, making it ideal for farm and field use. TwinSensor screens for two major antibiotic families simultaneously, supporting routine checks at intake. For plants requiring higher throughput, the award-winning Aurox automates incubation and reading in three minutes, feeding results directly into management systems. Extenso extends the detection panel to over 100 contaminants, helping cheese producers avoid costly fermentation failures, while Beadyplex enables multiplex screening across ten antibiotic groups in various food matrices. Together, these solutions embody Unisensor’s mission of simplifying workflows while ensuring regulatory compliance. By focusing on compatibility, the company ensures that its readers and software work seamlessly across multiple tests, reducing training time, simplifying maintenance, and unifying data. This design philosophy reduces costs while also enhancing traceability, enabling producers to meet the highest standards of compliance. Unisensor also addresses recurring consistency, speed, and traceability bottlenecks in testing by providing solutions that fit directly into existing workflows. Whether it is screening raw milk at intake, protecting starter cultures in cheese production, or maintaining lean staffing at plants, the company’s tests are engineered to streamline processes. Results are digitally logged with full identifiers, allowing teams to support audits, analyze trends, and connect seamlessly to ERP or LIMS systems. In practice, this translates to fewer disputes, reduced waste, and greater confidence in release decisions. Innovation remains central to the company’s growth. By keeping development cycles short and engaging directly with intake labs and plant QA teams, Unisensor rapidly adapts its products to evolving industry needs. Its scientific focus on immunoassay chemistry, multiplex formats, and automated reading enhances sensitivity, selectivity, and repeatability. .