Inside food & drink manufacturing
A free trade agreement (FTA) between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will bring trade benefits for the European dairy industry, but it could bring also lead to possible disruptions due to a variance in export certificates between the countries, said the...
It hasn’t generated quite as many column inches as the impending nuptials of Kate and Wills, but the prospect of two of the biggest players in the UK chilled convenience market tying the knot is big news for the food industry.
The European Union is to introduce a ban on bisphenol A (BPA) in polycarbonate baby bottles next year over fears the chemical could be hazardous to the health of young children.
Corby-based Parker Fine Foods has closed down its frozen meat production site due to a reorganisation of the business, FoodManufacture.co.uk has learnt.
Frozen food giant Birds Eye has apologised to a Welsh consumer after she found a dehydrated caterpillar in a chargrilled chicken steak.
Dutch dairy giant FrieslandCampina has announced its plans to close two of its cheese plants in the Netherlands, Varsseveld and Leerbroek, and will invest €47m to improve efficiency at five of its remaining production facilities.
Food manufacturers working with Amazon on its UK online grocery store are becoming increasingly frustrated by its progress just over four months after the launch, with patience wearing thin in some quarters.
General Mills has reformulated products representing a quarter of its US retail sales during the 2010 fiscal year to improve their health profiles, the company has said.
Meat and milk derived from cloned cattle and their offspring is one step closer to being on sale in the UK after scientists agreed that it was “unlikely to present a food safety risk”.