Too much duplication in food safety auditing is “regrettable”, but the British Retail Consortium (BRC) Global Standard was never designed to replace customer standards or audits completely, but free up supermarkets to focus on “development and brand specific...
It's been a challenging couple of years for the organic sector, with sharp declines in sales in many areas and a contraction in shelf space as supermarkets have weeded out their slowest sellers.
Stable isotope analysis (SIA) is now becoming so sophisticated that it can help prove not only whether a sample of beef is British or Brazilian, but whether it is Scottish, Welsh or English.
Waxing lyrical about “how organic food will save the planet” will not give the sector the sales boost it needs, according to the agency producing a new organic marketing campaign that will launch in January.
The pricing hierarchy in organic foods is confusing shoppers and holding the category back, with some products costing more than twice as much as conventional counterparts and others achieving price parity, according to the UK’s biggest grocer.
The government has cut a number of food-industry related quangos, including the School Food Trust, ahead of its comprehensive spending review on October 20.
Somewhere, in some time, there exists a land of beauty and promise for nutricosmetics products, where beauty supplements, foods and drinks can frolic, happy in the knowledge of their justifiable claims.The problem is that getting to this promised land...
Canada became the first country in the world yesterday to declare bisphenol A (BPA) to be a toxic substance that poses risks to human health and the environment.
Keith Taylor MEP is demanding that the EU Commission discover whether Twinings provided guarantees to Polish authorities that it would not misuse an EU funding award that will see UK jobs relocated abroad
A guaranteed supply of raw materials cannot be taken for granted as the population expands and the climate changes, the UK boss of meat processing giant Vion UK told delegates at the IGD Convention in London yesterday.
Tesco can provide a “strong and certain route to market” for small food manufacturers, helping to “liberate” them and increase their potential, commercial director Richard Brasher told delegates at this year’s IGD Convention in London.
Food manufacturers could fall foul of new legislation unless they educate staff about the difference between legitimate corporate hospitality and bribery, Eversheds has warned.
While electric vans and wind turbines are often seen as ‘totems’ of a retailer’s commitment to the environment, the greenest thing to do is not always what consumers - and the media - think it is, according to the man in charge of Sainsbury’s supply chain.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) will have to trim its budget by at least 25% over the next four years, which means it will have to “hand a great deal of responsibility [for food safety enforcement] back to the industry”, according to chief executive Tim...
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has teamed up with the West Midlands Regional Food Academy and law firm Eversheds to host a new event designed to help food manufacturers stay ahead of the game.
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has confirmed that up to 120 staff at seven UK sites could face redundancy following a European-wide restructuring, but said “130 GB vacancies and new roles would be made available”, so that net, net, there would be an increase...
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has expressed concern over the effects on the food industry of a interim cap on the number of skilled non-EU workers allowed to enter the UK.
As the BRC starts work on version six of its Global Food Safety Standard, leading UK own-label manufacturers have continued to question its relevance as the supermarkets have carried on – and in many cases stepped up – their own auditing activities with...
Less than 70 sites out of 12,000+ food production facilities audited to version five of the British Retail Consortium (BRC) Global Food Safety Standard have opted for unannounced audits, FoodManufacture.co.uk has learned.
Greggs has unveiled ambitious expansion plans, submitting a planning application for a new bakery in Wiltshire and securing permission to build a new bakery in Penrith and a replacement bakery in Newcastle upon Tyne.
The next generation of novel processing technologies from pulsed electric fields to ozone processing could prove to be far more promising than the first as scientists tackle the issues that have historically them back, Campden BRI's Craig Leadley...
Hotel Chocolat has vigorously denied claims by the GMB union that it has not properly canvassed staff over union recognition at its Huntingdon chocolate factory.
Artisan confectionery manufacturers are being undermined by a lack of clarity regarding the use of the word ‘hand-made’ on labels, according to chocolate maker Chocolaterie Casemir.
Warburtons has acknowledged receipt of a letter from Welsh rival Brace’s Bakery expressing an interest in its Newport bakery, but does not appear keen to engage in talks, according to Brace’s.
Morrisons has invested £1.5m in introducing wireless infrastructure to support real time working in five factories in Yorkshire, Northampton and Cheshire.
Management of food safety incidents should be far more effectively handled once the Food Standards Agency (FSA) installs new computer systems helping it to analyse extensive information contained within its own and external data banks.
Mark Escolme has quit as UK frozen foods MD at Findus Group after only 12 months in the role, with current chief marketing manager Leendert den Hollander appointed as his permanent replacement.
Farmers and food processors are waiting to hear what position the coalition will adopt on genetically modified (GM) foods, following its announcement that the public dialogue project on the subject was to be cancelled.
The British Retail Consortium’s (BRC’s) revised Global Standard for Storage and Distribution is simpler, clearer and adds features covering cleaning, waste and contracted services, said BRC compliance manager Karen Betts.
Campaigns are underway to counter threats to healthy school meals provision, with the Labour opposition looking to co-ordinate cross-party initiatives on the issue.
Neogen Europe has released a test that detects domoic acid: the naturally occurring toxin found in shellfish that causes Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning. The Neogen Europe Reveal test is designed to screen suspect samples containing the toxin at 10ppm or...
Bizerba says the integrated weighing function of its A510 slicing machine is a world first: meat, sausages and cheese are weighed and sliced in exact portions according to the predefined weight. The software constantly compares the total weight of the...
Northern Foods plans to build on its credentials as a food industry skills champion by upgrading its operations academy to form a degree-level training centre.
PFM Packaging Machinery has launched a range of in-line multihead weighers with low-drop height for fragile goods and new control software to improve accuracy at higher speeds.
Manufacturers are no nearer to finding out when if ever a maximum in-plant threshold for the adventitious presence of allergens such as milk, peanuts and egg will be published by regulators.
Demand for gluten-free fish batter is increasing as more fish and chip shops recognise the growing 'free-from' market, according to a supplier of the product.
