Inside food & drink manufacturing
A food packaging company in the UK has been ordered to pay almost £32,000 (€38,000) ) for flouting safety regulations after one of its workers suffered serious injuries after being pulled into a machine.
The European Commission is exploring ways to boost dioxin monitoring procedures after it was confirmed that products containing the toxic substance had reached the food chain and been sold to UK consumers.
The Vimto brand is now worth £54m at retail value in the UK soft drinks arena alone, while sales of Vimto-branded lollies, sweets and other products helped drive an additional £14.4m in sales in 2010.
UK consumers are increasingly keen on ethnic cuisine, but the market in mainland Europe remains ‘fragmented’, according to a new report from market research firm Keynote.
Contracts are being finalised on an exciting new project exploring how super-chilling foods could help manufacturers reduce costs and increase product shelf-life.
Novel technology that uses air instead of gallons of water and cleaning agents to clean process pipe work has been commissioned at the new Glenmorangie whisky bottling plant in Livingston.
Market uptake of sustainable palm oil will need to accelerate in 2011 in order to keep up with rapidly growing production, claims the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).
Pies and pasties specialist Peter’s Food Service has opened a new multi-million pound multi-temperature distribution depot in Sidcup to serve as a hub for its growing sales and distribution operation in the south-east.