Tate & Lyle keeps environmental impact labels on sugar bags short and sweet
26-Mar-2008
Tate & Lyle is including a reference to food miles on cane sugar retail packs to indicate their impact on the environment, rather than declaring...
26-Mar-2008 By Rod Addy
The UK's supermarket giant has been using complex weather analysis to predict demand
26-Mar-2008
Rising Inflation hinders manufacturing
26-Mar-2008 By Sarah Britton
Retailer warns manufacturers not to push their luck on promotional sales predictions
25-Mar-2008
Fish importer and processor New England Seafood has created two new senior posts at its £3M site in Chessington, Surrey. Linda Wood has been...
Choice editing best option for ethical foods
25-Mar-2008 By Rod Addy
The food industry should screen out unethically produced products, rather than using particular logos to designate certain foods as ethically...
Uniq writes down desserts assets as volumes fail to materialise
25-Mar-2008 By Elaine Watson
The profitability of Uniq’s desserts business remains unacceptable, despite a significant turnaround in recent months, bosses have admitted.Uniq,...
Bakers missing out on wholegrain and omega-3 trends
25-Mar-2008 By Sarah Britton
Many bakers are not capitalising on consumer demand for wholegrain and omega-3 breads according to a survey by bakery ingredients firm British...
25-Mar-2008 By Elaine Watson
The implementation of a new EU label to denote organic products has been delayed for a year as regulators try and come up with a less controversial...
Observational studies to gain greater influence over food policy
25-Mar-2008 By Rick Pendrous
Observational studies will become more important in deciding future food policy, a leading cancer researcher has suggested.Professor Kay-Tee Khaw,...
Processors must be more flexible to cope with demand
25-Mar-2008 By Sarah Britton
Processors must improve their flexibility and collaborate across the supply chain if they are to cope with fluctuating product demand, according to...
18-Mar-2008
Wrights Pies, the baked goods and confectionery manufacturer, has promoted Neville Carruthers to the newly-created position of operations director at...
BSI launches malicious attack standard
17-Mar-2008 By Rod Addy
The British Standards Institute (BSI) has launched a Publicly Available Specification (PAS) providing guidance for suppliers on how to prevent...
Tate & Lyle clashes with union over outsourcing
17-Mar-2008 By Elaine Watson
Tate & Lyle has dismissed allegations that outsourcing raw sugar operations at its Silvertown refinery in London could compromise workers’...
17-Mar-2008 By Rod Addy
Processors will face last minute retail price wars as the worsening economic climate forces major supermarkets into a promotions offensive, according...
April is the crucial month for wheat prices
17-Mar-2008 By Rick Pendrous
Next month’s UK weather will hugely affect wheat prices, currently hovering around £192/t, as rising prices drive farmers to devote more land to...
Noble Foods sale to complete this month
17-Mar-2008 By Elaine Watson
The UK’s biggest egg company, Noble Foods is about to be broken up following the enforced sale of a business it has only just acquired. Noble Foods...
Advice to wash bagged leafy salads scrapped
17-Mar-2008 By Rick Pendrous
Consumers will no longer be advised to re-wash ready to eat (RTE) leafy salads sold in supermarkets, following a change in expert advice supplied to...
13-Mar-2008
Clive Frampton and Ian Jones have been re-elected as chairman and vice chairman, to lead the British Egg Product Association.They will promote the...
Seafood processors survey to reveal industry truths
10-Mar-2008 By Sarah Britton
A survey funded by industry body Seafish is set to reveal industry trends and hardships as processors struggle to survive in a challenging...
M&S calls for clarity in labelling
10-Mar-2008 By Rod Addy
Marks & Spencer (M&S) will have completed two major labelling initiatives by March 31, according to its senior nutritionist, Claire...
EC’s food label proposals slammed
10-Mar-2008 By Rod Addy
The food industry has slammed the European Commission’s (EC) proposal of a 3mm minimum type size on food labels for being “short-sighted” and...
Call for holistic food policy
10-Mar-2008 By Rick Pendrous
An advisor to the British government has called for a more holistic approach to food policy, involving the adoption of a raft of measures to avert an...
10-Mar-2008 By Rod Addy
Many processors are neglecting crisis management and so could encounter serious difficulties over product recalls, according to the latest survey of...
Cargill targets local sourcing and pest management
10-Mar-2008 By Sarah Britton
Converting the cornmill at its Trafford Park plant from maize to wheat processing will improve pest control and allow more ingredients to be sourced...
BRC on US mission
10-Mar-2008 By Rick Pendrous
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) is in the US this week on a mission to convince firms such as Wal-Mart and McDonald’s to adopt BRC Global...
New chief executive for Milk Link
06-Mar-2008
The Milk Link Governing Board has announced that Barry Nicholls is to stand down as Milk Link’s Chief Executive at the end of March. He will be...
FFB future in doubt, admits chief exec
03-Mar-2008 By Rod Addy
John Adams, chief executive of Food From Britain (FFB), has admitted the body may have no future whatsoever after hearing its government funding...
Poultry producers slam RSPCA chicken survey
03-Mar-2008 By Rick Pendrous
Claims in a survey that shoppers have switched to buying chicken produced in more welfare-friendly conditions have been described as “statistically...
Sainsbury close to finishing work on additives
03-Mar-2008 By Rod Addy
Sainsbury is nearing completion of work towards clean labelling for its own-label products, but the process has been tough, according to integrity...
Blitz spirit needed to avoid an impending food crisis
03-Mar-2008 By Rick Pendrous
Consumers need to rediscover the spirit of World War 2 Britain in their approach to food consumption to avoid a looming food security crisis,...
03-Mar-2008 By Sarah Britton
The Chilled Food Association (CFA) has dismissed the carbon footprint labelling of individual products as “misguided”, “expensive” and...
27-Feb-2008
Paul Wilkinson, who has extensive food industry experience, has been appointed chairman of East Anglian grain trading cooperative Fengrain. Wilkinson...
26-Feb-2008 By Rod Addy
Students of the Food Technology Centre at North Nottinghamshire College have access to some impressive facilities, says Rod Addy
Video inspects oven interiors
26-Feb-2008
The OvenScope video inspection system from McQueen Cairns Technology produces videos of the internal surfaces of continuous ovens as it passes along...
Thermal transfer printer saves space and money
26-Feb-2008
An entry-level, high performance thermal transfer printer has been developed by Allen Coding Systems.Offering cost and space saving benefits, the...
Mass flowmeter gets the dose right for drinks maker
26-Feb-2008
Cheshire-based manufacturer of mixing, distillation and fermentation systems to the drinks industry, ABM, has chosen the Krohne Optimass 1300...
Faster, lump-free mixer
26-Feb-2008
Hosokawa Micron has developed the Vitomix mid-shear conical mixer which is capable of achieving high mixing accuracy in a very short time. The...
Cereal flaking rolls upgraded for reliability and precision
26-Feb-2008
State-of-the-art hydraulics technology to improve the reliability and operation of cereal flaking rolls is now being offered by Baker Perkins, both...
Lightweight portable floor scale just flies along
26-Feb-2008
An ultra-lightweight portable floor scale from Avery Weigh-Tronix claims to have the UK's highest strength-to-weight ratio.Called the Air Platform,...
26-Feb-2008 By Michelle Knott
Systems can improve visibility throughout your factory while helping to avoid damaging product recalls, as Michelle Knott discovers
Convergence, separation, and sortation - all sorted
26-Feb-2008
The need to separate, converge or sort products, such as biscuits and cakes requiring coating with chocolate, while they are moving on a process belt...
Pallet stabiliser prevents broken bottles
26-Feb-2008
A new palletised containment system could save the glass bottling industry millions of pounds in breakages by improving pallet stability during...
26-Feb-2008 By John Dunn
Explosive materials; 'rat holing'; and hygienic design. Powder handling presents some thorny issues, says John Dunn
Move and mature cheese in same box
26-Feb-2008
Linpac Allibert has produced a reusable cheese box or crate specially designed for handling and maturing 20kg blocks of cheese. The design is a joint...
26-Feb-2008 By Rick Pendrous
Leatherhead Food International's new chief executive Dr Paul Berryman plans to raise the research organisation's turnover by 5-10% a year by offering more focused added value services to its members. Rick Pendrous finds out where the money is...
26-Feb-2008 By Sarah Britton
Adventurous development chef at The Serious Food Company Charlotte Marriott shares her thoughts on flower-infused desserts. Sarah Britton reports
26-Feb-2008
Satiety foods offer a filling meal that doesn't leave you sniffing around for snacks and consumers are taking note, says Sarah Britton
26-Feb-2008 By Lynda Searby
Fresh pasta sauces are set to become a major growth area and, as Lynda Searby discovers, there's more to this area than tomato and basil
Terrific taste, teeny waist
26-Feb-2008
Creaminess, stability and shelf-life are key elements to making high quality ice cream, but these are particularly challenging to achieve in low fat...
