A new case erecting and robotic loading station at Nairn's Oatcakes in Scotland has automated a labour-intensive job, improved efficiency, and overcome limitations to meet retailer expectations on shelf-ready applications.
Precise and consistent cake decoration using robots is now possible, thanks to a development by Quasar Automation and its technology partners Scorpion Vision and Mitsubishi Electric.
Following Marel’s recent acquisition of the mixing and grinding activities of Carnitech, Marel GB will now provide, in the UK & Ireland, full sales, service and spares for the range of mixers and grinders for the meat, fish and poultry industries.
Until recently, Belgium-based Luka Meats’ smoked, roasted, and extra-lean hams and meatloaves were pasteurised, browned and seared using a hand-held torch. When handling 1,200 hams and 300-400 loafs a week became too time-consuming, the firm automated...
Young people will be provided with help in finding work placements and experience within the food industry when an online facility called FoodStart is launched next May by the Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST).
Following its success in Germany, the Middle East and Spain, the German energy drink Effect is being launched in the UK by MBG International Premium Brands in partnership with UK healthy drinks manufacturer, Feel Good Drinks.
A new enzyme product has been designed to reduce waste in industrial bakeries caused by excessively sticky wheat-mix dough with limited proofing stability.
Chr Hansen has launched a 'natural' blue shade of colourant that can be used in the manufacture of confectionery or chewing gum in the US. The colourant is based on spirulina: a blue-green algae that occurs naturally in tropical and sub-tropical...
A new survey has suggested the timing of harvest, drying temperature and seed handling can influence the free fatty acid (FFA) content in rapeseed oil.
The European Commission (EC) is calling for tenders for a study on mandatory origin labelling of milk, milk used as an ingredient and unprocessed meat other than beef, pig, poultry, sheep and goat meat. Presumably the latter is to cover game. What about...
Chilled convenience foods manufacturer Bakkavör has seen a 6% increase in turnover to £428.7M for the second quarter of the year in its most recent results issued for the half year to June 29.
A Food Standards Agency (FSA) report has branded the failure to meet targets for tackling campylobacter “disappointing”, claiming fatalistic industry views are hampering progress and must change.
Tesco has apologised to a woman who claimed to find a live caterpillar in a bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwich, bought from one of its stores in St Leonards in East Sussex last week.
The government’s voluntary Public Health Responsibility Deal (PHRD) may not yet be dead, but it is clearly in need of intensive care, according to the chairman of Consensus Action on Salt & Health (CASH) Professor Graham MacGregor.
GMB officials have sought permission from the union’s executive council to ballot for strike action at United Biscuit’s Jacob’s Cream Crackers factory in Liverpool after talks about changes to work agreements collapsed.
The British Soft Drinks Association (BSDA) has reiterated that fruit juice plays a positive role in the diet after a new report found a link between drinking it and an increased risk of contracting type 2 diabetes.
Chilled foods firm Samworth Brothers has reassured customers that, following an acid spill at its Kensey Foods factory at Launceston, Cornwall, business has returned to normal.
Small-scale farmers are joining forces to boost their bargaining power against the ‘unfair pricing policies’ of large dairy producers, according to the National Farmers Union (NFU).
TV chef Jamie Oliver has sparked fresh controversy this week by claiming British youth was “wet behind the ears” and didn’t work as hard as migrant workers.
2 Sisters Food Group, and PepsiCo are among the trade buyers that could snap up Burton’s Biscuits, although the deal could easily go to a private equity house, according to analysts.
The chairman of Consensus Action on Salt & Health (CASH) professor Graham MacGregor has hit back at claims by the food industry that further salt reduction in ham and other cured meat products would endanger people’s lives.
Premier Foods moved to reassure customers that bakery supplies would not be disrupted as the first of three threatened strikes kicked off at its Hovis bread factory in Wigan.
Too many small food manufacturers merely go through the motions of training their staff in food hygiene in order to prove due diligence to their customers and the regulatory authorities, a leading training provider has claimed.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that Unilever cannot use one of its Piri Piri Pot Noodle online adverts in its current form and ordered the firm not to use “offensive images” in future.
TV chef Jamie Oliver has been slammed by the Child Poverty Action Group after his controversial remarks about the food and TV purchasing habits of low-income families.
Zero-hours contracts in the food industry are on the rise and unions believe firms are using them to press workers into accepting longer hours and lower pay and avoid employment costs.
International Cheese Awards chairman Richard Paul has appealed for sense to prevail over milk pricing in the coming months, so the entire supply chain benefits from price rises.
Dairy Crest chief executive Mark Allen has netted £328,751, after selling shares in the firm to fund the purchase of a new family home following his recent divorce.