People who were deprived of one night’s sleep bought more calories and quantities of food in a mock supermarket on the following day, according to a new study published in the journal Obesity.
Greencore subsidiary Oldfields must pay an £18,000 fine for workplace safety failings that led to an employee losing four of his fingertips as he tried to unblock a dicing machine.
2 Sisters Food Group’s new £1M microbiology lab will help to develop the future supply of food technologists that the UK desperately needs, according to the firm’s technical director.
An enhanced range of bottles for hot-fill food and beverages, which uses a technology for improved filling, greater design flexibility, lighter weight and smoother walls, has been introduced by polyethylene terephthalate packaging specialist APPE.
Contract packer Thomas Hardy Brewing and Packaging, which packs beers, ciders and soft drinks, as well as offering brewing, blending and contract filling for many leading household brands, has upgraded its end-of-line facilities to provide customers with...
Based on customer research, Air Products has modified its Freshline QS tunnel to make it even more user-friendly for food firms wanting to try new frozen product lines or expand their freezing capacity. The entry-level Freshline QS tunnel is now 6m long,...
When Tamar Foods bakery - part of the Samworth Brothers group - won a contract to produce a range of Marks & Spencer (M&S) savoury pies it invested in a new conveyor system to handle M&S’s green totes
HRS Process Technology has supplied heat exchanger and pump solutions for an aseptic fruit processing plant in California. The system, which includes a DTA-series heat exchanger and a BP8 and BP10 pump, will process four tonnes of aseptic sliced and diced...
Soreen malt loaf’s soft and squidgy texture makes it hard to slice consistently on a production line. Traditional mechanical blade or knife cutting methods can deform this soft product during cutting and product build-up and retention can occur on the...
The Weber Power Control system has been granted a ‘Red Dot’ award in recognition of its outstanding design and simple operation for high-performance slicing lines.
The industry needs more skilled employees and it needs them quickly. But is there a coherent training and careers regime? Gary Scattergood investigates
Ingredion is launching “the first clean-label ingredient to replace carrageenan in the formulation of dairy-based puddings”. The co-texturiser, Novation Indulge 2740 is said to be the only carrageenan substitute that can be simply labelled as ‘starch’....
DeutscheBack’s TopBake Gluten Enhancer series contains enzymes, vegetable fibres, hydrocolloids and ascorbic acid to compensate for the weak gluten properties of some bakery ingredients or reduce the amount of gluten used.
Just as the UK’s new Groceries Code Adjudicator Christine Tacon begins to make her presence felt in the UK, on September 16 European food industry associations launched ‘The Supply Chain Initiative - Together for good trading practices’, to address the...
Premier Foods’ senior management must have had mixed feelings following the agreement reached with the Bakers, Food and & Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) towards the end of last month.
The “sustainable intensification” of farming – including the use of genetic modification (GM) – is vital for feeding the developing world and enabling global manufacturers to secure enough raw materials to feed a growing population.
Millionaire celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has endorsed Which?’s new research which revealed 14M cash-strapped consumers were cutting waste due to financial reasons.
A new food park near Perth in Scotland could create up to 400 jobs over the next 10 years after local councillors gave planning permission for a £8.7M investment last week.
GlaxoSmithKline’s sale of Lucozade and Ribena for £1.35bn earlier this month was the latest in a long line of iconic British brand sales topped by Cadbury.
Conventional third-party hygiene audits of suppliers are unlikely to pick up examples of food fraud – such as the horsemeat incidents exposed earlier this year – a leading audit scheme owner has said.
TV presenter Julia Bradbury will be the star host of the Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards (FMEA) to take place at the Park Lane Hilton, London on Thursday November 21.
Irish meat firm O’Brien Fine Foods has invested £2.6M (€3.1M) in a new three-year development programme at its Timahoe, Country Kildare plant, creating 51 new jobs.
Social media is a “minefield” and is forcing food manufacturers and retailers to radically change their business systems and the way they manage consumer complaints, according to the boss of a leading food chain traceability and auditing software company.
Discount retailer Aldi is the “stand-out performer” in a sluggish market. That’s the verdict of City analyst Shore Capital after the publication of Nielsen market share data for the four weeks to September 14.
Five food and drink brands – including the Saucy Fish Co and Doom Bar ale – have won coveted cool brand status alongside Lamborghini, Porsche and Samsung among the UK public.
Businesses and government need to break down a regulatory culture where people “mindlessly follow” processes that don’t improve customer services or create wealth if the UK is to compete with India and China in the years to come, warns former trade minister...
Essential Cuisine, the Cheshire-based supplier of stocks and sauces to the catering industry, has invested £1M in a new factory to bring production in-house and create 15 new jobs.
Up to 350 new food manufacturing roles will be created in at Hain Daniels’s Fakenham site in Norfolk, after the firm agreed a pudding partnership with Sainsbury.
Nearly half of British consumers are trapped in a five-meal recipe rut, which sees them return to the same recipes week after week, reveals new research from Morrisons.
Premier Foods’ executive director and chief financial officer (cfo) Mark Moran is to leave the firm, in what City analyst Panmure Gordon called further evidence that “the revolving door continues to spin”.
