Legislation banning food businesses from throwing away fit-for-purpose surplus food would be as accepted as policy surrounding seatbelts, according to the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
There’s still plenty of time to submit your winning entry in the Food and Drink Manufacturing Excellence Awards (FMEAs), ahead of the July 17 deadline. So, here’s how to impress the judges and bring home a much-coveted food and drink manufacturing Oscar.
A fatal forklift accident at a Lincolnshire transport and storage firm has claimed the life of a worker and resulted in a £125,000 fine for his employer.
Morrisons has been forced to launch an investigation after a family reportedly found a sharp piece of plastic in a packet of the retailer’s minced beef.
Many poultry slaughterhouses in Europe are incapable of producing safe meat that’s free from disease, faeces, abscesses and septicaemia, a shaming report from the trade union Unison has claimed.
Morrisons’ boss David Potts is likely to recruit a smaller executive team after another board member ditched the retailer this week, city analysts have predicted.
Popcorn manufacturers are pumping too much salt into their products, while leading consumers to believe they are a healthy snack, campaigners have claimed.
The UK food and drink industry is lagging behind France with the amount of surplus food it send for redistribution, according to food redistribution charity FareShare.
Teenagers will invent a new cereal for Kellogg as part of a campaign aimed at attracting new talent into food manufacturing by promoting the sector as an exciting and rewarding career option for young people.
Greece’s exit from the Eurozone – known as Grexit – and possibly the EU threatens British food and drink exports to Europe, currency experts have warned.
Britain’s pig processing sector has been quick to downplay the risks to consumers of becoming ill from antibiotic resistant bacterium in contaminated pork products, following press reports today about MRSA in products on sale in supermarkets.
It’s official: supermarket product promotions lose money for the manufacturers that make them, according to a three-year study from Nielsen covering 212M promotions across 5M fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG).
Discount retailer Poundland has posted sales up by 11.8% to top £1bn for the first time, in full-year results to March 29 but warned trading in the first half of this financial year will be subdued.
Recent media coverage about historical iodine levels in organic milk (according to Dairy UK, feed is now supplemented) was a reminder that milk and dairy foods provide about 40% of dietary iodine, another major source is seafood.
Food giant Nestlé is set to lose more than £127M and suffer brand damage worth billions of US dollars, after India banned its Maggi noodles on food safety fears, warns a brands consultancy.
Fortified milk could help to boost the value of milk sales, despite supermarket price war slashing the price of the white stuff to as little as 89p for a four pint bottle, according to new research from market research organisation Mintel.
The food and drink industry has united behind a new eight-step plan for food businesses to increase resource efficiency, reduce food waste and support people experiencing food poverty.
Hundreds of workers at 2 Sisters Food Group’s Gunstones bakery in Sheffield took part in a 48-hour strike this week, with a further 48-hour walk out planned for next month.
The food industry should help set job performance standards and bring qualification learning up-to-date to battle the skills gap it faces, according to the National Skills Academy for Food & Drink (NSAFD).
The European Commission (EC) has again been urged to ban EU imports of Canadian horsemeat, following a report which raised fears about the meat’s safety for human consumption.
Consumers deserve the right to know the cheese and milk they buy is British, farm minister George Eustice will tell fellow agriculture ministers in Brussels today (June 16).
Finsbury Food Group has completed its acquisition of foodservice supplier Johnstone’s Just Desserts, saving 150 jobs at the firm, after buying the business out of administration.
Big supermarkets may have influenced the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA’s) decision to deepen its probe into the proposed merger of Dairy Crest Group’s Dairies Division with Müller-Wiseman, according to leading City analyst Shore Capital.
Animal feed firm AB Agri Limited – a subsidiary of Associated British Foods – has been fined £10,000, after two workers were seriously injured by a reversing heavy goods vehicle (HGV).
Frutarom will boost its turnover to more than $1bn within the next three years by continuing to acquire up to 10 new businesses each year, the firm's chief executive for health said.
Müller Dairy has put 43 jobs at risk at its Market Drayton site in Shropshire as part of a review of its operational efficiencies, according to the firm.
Food and drink manufacturers would face higher long-term costs if Britain quits the EU, but the move would have less impact on business than some “scare-mongering” reports suggest.
There is a “low risk” coeliacs could suffer side-effects from the recent Genius Foods’s product recall despite many consumers voicing their anger and disappointment on social media, a free-from expert has claimed.
United Biscuits’ £50M investment at its Harlesden facility didn’t stop production, despite major structural work being carried out, factory general manager Helen Day has said.
