The benchmarking of the BRC/IoP packaging standard with the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) equivalent has been a major step towards international harmonisation in food packaging certification, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has claimed.
The decision of aluminium sheet supplier Novelis to offer metal with a guaranteed, certified proportion of recycled content could pave the way for similar undertakings from other materials suppliers.
Vacuum pump manufacturer Busch (UK) has supplied a new Busch R 5 pump, model RA 630 for an existing centralised vacuum system at Cranswick Convenience Foods' Milton Keynes DeliCo site. It has been installed alongside 10 existing R 5s as the facility...
Fruit processor Fourayes is investing £1.3M in the latest food production technology to meet a 70% rise in demand for its jams and aseptic purées over the past six months.
Marel showcased its I-slice 3300 at the recent Seafood Processing Europe exhibition in Brussels. It highlighted the flexibility and efficiency of its production of salmon retail packs, which it claims can make batches of sliced salmon ready for packing...
Kellogg has implemented Honeywell radio frequency barcode scanners as part of its automated supply chain. Supplied and supported by Peak-Ryzex, Kellogg uses the scanners at its UK distribution centres and warehouses. Its barcode-driven processes are dependent...
Daregal Gourmet and Delice de France were the big winners at the British Frozen Food Federation's (BFFF's) awards at the London Hilton on Park Lane last month.
UK food firms need to shatter their misconceptions about central and eastern Europe because it holds "highly-sophisticated" retail outfits to partner with to exploit extensive export opportunities.
Energy management specialist Schneider Electric has launched a partnership programme with other technology providers under the title EcoStruxure. The aim is to enable open data communications between buildings and process equipment across enterprises...
Activ'Inside claims to have produced the only natural lemon balm extract titrated in magnesium with European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) approval that enables manufacturers to communicate a message of naturalness, tradition, history of use and safety....
Ingredion's new functional native starch - Indulge 1720 - is a clean-label co-texturiser designed to enable dairy manufacturers to deliver thick and creamy - yet cost-effective - indulgent yogurt products.
Tate & Lyle has been granted a US patent to manufacture Soda-Lo salt microspheres, which are designed to reduce salt levels by 25% to 50% without sacrificing taste.
Roquette and 3I Nature pooled their know-how to develop a new food supplement based on micro-algae and fibres. Named Chlorella 2D, its synergistic combination of Roquette Chlorella and Nutriose are said to promote digestive health - a claim that is supported...
The government has at last published its hybrid front-of-pack (FoP) nutritional labelling scheme, to widespread applause from health campaigners, major retailers and some manufacturers - although not all - that have supported it.
Scottish potato crisp company Mackie's at Taypack is set to double its output after developing a new manufacturing facility in Errol, which is 60% bigger than its current unit at nearby Moncur, Perthshire.
The Office of Fair Trading's (OFT's) decision not to refer 2 Sisters Food Group's (2SFG's) acquisition of large parts of Vion UK's food operations to the Competition Commission was widely welcomed news last month, since it safeguarded...
Dairy Crest is consulting staff on plans to parcel out its milk delivery business in the north west of England to Creamline Dairies and Mortons Dairies in a deal worth £1.15M in cash.
Ocado plans to develop as a grocery retailer not a logistics firm for hire, insisted its boss, as the firm reported bigger losses in the first half of this year.
Owen Paterson, head of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) claimed Grocontinental made a “major contribution to the local economy” as he opened its £5M frozen food warehouse.
Proposed job cuts at Unilever’s factory in Norwich, reflect broader business strategy to focus on profitable areas, and similar future moves cannot be ruled out, according to analyst Clive Black.
Molson Coors is redoubling efforts to avoid industrial action at its brewery in Burton-on-Trent after Unite union members rejected the latest deal on pay and conditions at the site.
The shock exit of tennis superstar Maria Sharapova from Wimbledon last week will allow more time to concentrate on her new confectionery business, amid claims that she is cashing in on her sports stardom to sell sweets.
Outgoing Dairy UK director general Jim Begg has hit out at misleading labelling implying all the ingredients of dairy products are sourced from the UK when this is not the case.
Food and drink processors should pursue sugar replacers not only because they are healthier, but because they can be proved to be cheaper, leading nutritionist Jack Winkler has claimed.
Upmarket grocer Waitrose has opened a frozen beef unit at its Dovecote Park estate, in a move claimed to ensure full traceability and one of the shortest supply chains among UK supermarkets.
The long-awaited reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will create a fairer, more market orientated, greener and stronger food production chain.
The number of whistleblowers in the food supply chain has increased over the past year, according to the latest figures from the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has upped the pressure on dairy processors to sign its Dairy Industry Code of Best Practice for contractual relations by publishing a name-and-shame list of firms that have refused to sign.
The Scotch Whisky industry is threatened by Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform measures that could restrict Scottish malted barley supplies to distillers, despite changes being hailed as a food security breakthrough.
The boss of the government-funded Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has played down plans to axe its budget by 40%, unveiled as part of the government’s latest spending review.
Two teenagers from a school in Berkshire have won the ‘Future of Food’ category of an awards scheme, which challenges secondary school students to come up with technologies that provide a better way of doing things.
Food safety watchdog the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has launched a consultation to canvass views on proposed changes to The Food Law Code of Practice.
The latest thinking on allergens will come under the spotlight at Food Manufacture’s Food Safety Conference on Thursday October 17 2013 at the National Motorcycle Museum, near Birmingham, courtesy of a top Unilever scientist.
Five key trends have been identified for outbreaks of campylobacter – the most common cause of food poisoning in the UK – but the reasons behind them are far harder to pinpoint, a Royal Society for Public Health conference heard.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is considering stricter criteria reducing the levels of Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) in ready-to-eat (RTE) foods intended for vulnerable people in hospitals and other health care settings.
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) can push total UK soft drinks sales past the £13bn mark by 2018 if it focuses on growth in six core consumer occasions or ‘moments’, it claims.
