Inside food & drink manufacturing
Food and drink manufacturers should prepare for more civil and criminal competition law enforcement as recent UK reforms have made it easier for the authorities to bring prosecutions, warns law firm Stephenson Harwood.
A Northern Ireland food packaging manufacturer is investing £2.2M to create 10 new jobs at its Dungannon site.
Naturex is launching what it claims is Europe's first clinically proven - and proanthocyanidin (PAC) standardised - organic cranberry powder to improve urinary tract health.
Meat stabilising specialist Hydrosol presented its new ideas for the economical manufacture of cooked cured meats, minced meat and sausage products at last month's IFFA show in Frankfurt.
Automation is about much more than the latest robot on the block, says Rick Pendrous
UK retail sales for May underline the growing importance of online sales, which “saved retailers’ bacon”, last month, according to consultancy firm KPMG.
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Motor speed is usually measured by an internal sensor bearing or an optical encoder with fixed pulse counts, whereby a separate sensor or code disc (code wheel) is required for each pulse count. This has a negative effect on flexibility and storage.
Cheshire-based cheese manufacturer Joseph Heler has launched its new Cheddar with 30% less salt in 600 Tesco stores.
Considering the years of haggling that led up to the adoption of the EU Food Information Regulation (FIR), you might have expected all possible aspects of interpretation to have been covered. Alas, no, as revealed by the questions that keep cropping up...
With a 1Mt cocoa shortfall predicted by 2020, processors are working to ensure a future for chocoholics, reports Michelle Knott
Greencore has reported a significant increase in its half-year results, despite the problems it has faced with the horsemeat contamination scandal.
There is an unusually wide consensus across the recycling value chain that materials recovery facilities (MRFs) should be subject to mandatory, rather than voluntary, quality requirements and testing regimes when it comes to their sorted output streams.
Functional food manufacturers need to stop moaning about the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) health claims regime and wake up to the abundance of opportunities for expansion.
Improved bowel health, increased satiety and enhanced calcium absorption add to mounting evidence for the health benefits of certain added fibres in the diet, according to Tate & Lyle.
Large manufacturers need to be encouraged and "hand-held" by government to share innovation and technological best practice in order to boost food production across the globe, according to Labour's shadow food and farming minister Huw Irranca-Davies.
Continuing increases in demand, along with the need to remain competitive, led Birtwistle Catering Butchers to switch from hand-cutting to automatic meat portioning using Marel's I-Cut 36 Portioner.
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The government today (June 4) announced a wide-ranging, year-long independent review into the “integrity and assurance of food supply networks” in the wake of the horsemeat scandal.
Far from 'quick response', some have dubbed QR codes 'quite rubbish'. But will the joke turn out to be on those manufacturers that choose to ignore them? Paul Gander scans the evidence and reports on his findings
Ice cream producer Cheshire Farm has installed a metal detector and conveyor system from Lock Inspection Systems.
To build a successful family sausage firm, it's crucial to have good quality products and invest in the business, Rob Sessions tells Gary Scattergood
Allied Bakeries is addressing the growing problem of transit packaging theft and loss with plastics recycler Luxus.
Shadow food and farming minister Huw Irranca-Davies is talking up Labour's focus on food policy, says Gary Scattergood
Baker Perkins has invested in its product and process development capability for the snack and cereal industries with the installation of one of its SBX Master twin-screw extruders at its Innovation Centre in Peterborough.
Sir,I write regarding the recent opinion column by Clare Cheney, headlined 'Nobody does IT better - except the Dutch'.
Plant bakers need to defend their corner more robustly in order to increase consumer awareness of bread's nutritional benefits while also battling harvest, regulatory and publicity woes.
US researchers claim to have developed a way to modify stainless steel surfaces that dramatically reduces fouling during food processing and improves efficiency.
KMC has developed two CheeseMaker speciality starches that enable producers to make recombined parmesan and other hard cheese alternatives easily and quickly. Traditionally, 12-16 litres of raw milk are necessary to process a parmesan cheese and it needs...
Carmit Candy Industries has unveiled a weight-management chocolate wafer bar that combines two ingredients that are clinically proven to increase satiety: glucomannan and a potato-derived proteinase inhibitor Slendesta.
Being able to combine farm and food waste made arable, beef and pig producer A C Shropshire in Leicester a suitable candidate for the installation of an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant. Previously manure was stored in large tanks being applied to the...
The world's most advanced multi-head weigher, is the bold claim from Ishida Europe for its latest bit of kit, which makes its debut at the Total Processing & Packaging Exhibition at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham (June 4 to 6).
A new handheld device can electronically record hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) data, eliminating the need for long-hand forms and papers.
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) will focus on reformulation, pack sizes and advertising messaging in order to meet its Public Health Responsibility Deal obligations, in a move bosses no doubt hope will stave off the lingering threat of statutory intervention.
A new specification for continental canned vegetable brand Bonduelle combines a nitrogen-dosed, pressurised steel food can with a 15% overall reduction in can weight, thanks to a significantly thinner wall, no requirement for beading, but also -...