Food safety watchdog the Foods Standards Agency (FSA), Leatherhead Food Research, market intelligence specialist Mintel and business law firm DWF are supporting the Food Manufacture Group’s free one-hour webinar Horsemeat: learning the lessons of an avoidable...
The safety implications of mechanically removed meat differ depending on the type of pressure used to remove the meat from the carcass, according to European health chiefs.
The horsemeat scandal, which continues to plague the food supply chain, has severely damaged consumer confidence in the industry’s ability to regulate itself and will have major implications for the way food safety is regulated in the future.
Tesco is “misleading” consumers over its scrapping of a pledge to only rear poultry on soya feed that’s free of genetic modification (GM), say campaigners.
The European meat supply chain still contains “shocking blind spots”, said a supply chain management firm, after the Dutch authorities revealed 50,000t of meat supplied by two Dutch meat traders may have contained horsemeat.
Upmarket retailer Marks & Spencer’s (M&S’s) “excellent” food sales in the fourth-quarter of 2012/13 could be due to the horsemeat crisis, according to two City analysts.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is investigating how Asda corned beef became contaminated with horsemeat, which was then revealed to contain the banned veterinary drug phenylbutazone, or bute.
A Scottish slaughterhouse has been fined £9,500 for breaking a law designed to keep bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) out of the human food chain.
Ranjit Boparan's acquisition of the outstanding business of Vion UK last month was heralded as a shrewd move for his company 2 Sisters Food Group (2SFG) as several retailers announced their desire to shorten and simplify their meat supply chains...
Moy Park has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay Environment Agency costs of £42,500 for emitting foul smells from its poultry unit in Kirkby on Bain, Lincolnshire.
Meat firm Cranswick has posted “outstanding trading” both for the year to March 31 2013 and its fourth quarter, according to City analyst Shore Capital.
A repeat of the horsemeat scandal that has rocked the industry could be avoided if the findings of new pan-European traceability research are adopted, according to those behind the project.
Australia's premium beef jerky and biltong producer Mariani Foods has launched a European brand of meat jerky called Legends. Mariani says this "new generation of beef jerky" is soft and easy to chew, unlike most of the harder jerkies available...
Retailer plans to shorten their supply chains to prevent a repetition of incidents such as the horsemeat scandal are unrealistic, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
Pig farmers turned sausage manufacturers Debbie and Andrew Keeble are set to launch their premium sausage brand Heck in Tesco on April 8, in direct competition with their former family brand Debbie & Andrew’s sausages.
Meat packer Hilton Food Group, which supplies retailers such as Tesco, is expected to ride out the recent horsemeat contamination issue unscathed, following publication of its preliminary results for 2012 which showed sales up 5% to £1bn.
Fisherman turned food manufacturer Kevin Jonas has hatched a plan to bring large-scale production of Cromer crab back to its North Norfolk home town of Cromer, creating 20 jobs.
The horsemeat crisis has rocked the UK food industry to its roots. It has wiped millions of pounds from the balance sheets of food manufacturers, retailers, foodservice companies and other businesses, while causing massive reputational damage. To help...
The Easter holiday – the second biggest period for food and drink sales after Christmas – will be a great opportunity for British food and drink firms to showcase their products – particularly with more shoppers wanting to buy British, according to the...
Retailers will demand more stringent quality control and traceability procedures ̶ including regular DNA testing ̶ from their suppliers within the next few years as a result of the recent horsemeat scandal, according to the boss of one traceability...
Buying traceable, local and British food has risen “substantially” up consumers’ agendas since the horsemeat scandal, according to the latest research from Mintel.
The 2 Sisters Food Group expects the horsemeat scandal to cause “considerable volume reduction” to its ready meal business, according to its latest financial results for the 13 weeks to January 26.
A boat repair business has been ordered to pay £43,000 after it sent two employees to repair a fishing boat’s diesel tank under circumstances that could have led to a fatal accident.
Supermarket chain Sainsbury has dodged the worst impact of the horsemeat scandal and posted better than expected financial results for its fourth quarter and year to March 16, driven mainly by non food items.
Help with rising fuel costs, less red tape and easier access to finance are top of food manufacturers’ Wish List for the 2013 budget. FoodManufacture.co.uk asked some of the industry’s key players what they would like to see in the Chancellor’s Budget...
Britain’s fourth largest supermarket Morrisons has revealed plans to start selling food online by the end of the year and open more convenience stores in its latest financial results, which reported profit before tax down by 4% to £901M.
Frozen food manufacturers should not concentrate on finding “a single new product development [NPD] silver bullet” to increase sales but, instead, segment their offerings to particular types of shoppers.
Passing cheap beef off as lamb has been a “widespread” practice by some Scottish curry houses which probably knew “full well what they were doing”, according to a leading bacteriologist.
A simple “eat less meat” message won’t wash with consumers or producers, so sustainability campaigners need to convince people to eat “better meat” as well, in order to improve the environment and public health.
The European Commission (EC) will come under increasing pressure to permit the use of lactic acid washes as a decontaminant for chicken, following authorisation of its use on beef carcasses last month.
Sales of rotisserie chicken have fallen by 18% since the government introduced VAT on hot foods last October, according to the British Poultry Council (BPC).
Caterers will be the focus of the government’s new salt reduction strategy to be published during National Salt Awareness Week, which starts today (March 11), as part of the government’s Public Health Responsibility Deal Food Network.
No conclusions about health can be drawn from recent research linking the risk of premature death with the amount of processed meat eaten, according to a leading dietician.
The Vion red meat and poultry businesses acquired by 2 Sisters Food Group (2SFG) can expect some “major cost savings” by their new owner Ranjit Boparan, according to a leading City analyst.
Multivac Marking & Inspection will be showing its marking systems for trays, thermoformed packs and vacuum packs of meat and sausage products at the IFFA 2013 meat trade show, which takes place in Frankfurt from May 4 to 9.
City analysts Shore Capital have highlighted the vulnerability of private equity owned businesses and the Italian ready meals segment to contamination with horsemeat.
