Inside food & drink manufacturing
Press reports suggesting that breaking up the Food Standards Agency (FSA) would constitute a ‘victory’ for the food industry are misleading and “very annoying”, according to the boss of the Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST).
Industrial action at Bakkavör’s pizza plant in Harrow moved one step closer today as staff voted overwhelmingly in favour of rejecting the firm's latest pay offer and pledged to conduct a strike ballot.
For regulatory purposes, the definition of nanoparticles must address functionality as well as size, according to former Food Standards Agency (FSA) chairman Lord Krebs.
Burger King will not run out of burgers this summer, despite a devastating fire at one of its key UK suppliers, bosses have insisted.
Dearne Valley Foods has already re-established one production line at a neighbouring site and is striving to restore another following a fire that devastated its main factory.