Food industry robots soon to take meat samples
Robotic sampling of meat quality on slaughterhouse production lines could be commercially available next year, as a result of a £1M research project.
Archives for February 13, 2012
Nettle beer brewer stung in tax battle
A Cornish microbrewery is battling tax inspectors for survival as they try to recoup £10,000 of backdated revenue from it for allegedly wrongly selling one of its creations as a beer.
MUFC-supplier Mumtaz's global ethnic food plans
Manchester United Football Club’s (MUFC's) official ethnic meal supplier plans to become the largest producer of Asian foods in the UK with the creation of a new factory capable of producing up to 100,000 meals a day.
Farm Group leaves £4M of bad debt for Dairy Crest
Farm Group’s decision to go into administration threatens 133 jobs and has saddled Dairy Crest with £4M of bad debt.
Dairy Crest's £4M bad debt after Quadra calls in administrators
Dairy foods firm Dairy Crest has increased its bad debt provision by £4M after one of its customers Quadra Foods called in the administrators.
Public health role for food industry
The food industry must get much more closely involved in public health issues if we are to deal with the problems of obesity the nation faces, the co-chair of the government’s food Public Health Responsibility Deal (PHRD) Network has argued.