Inside food & drink manufacturing
New trade talks between the EU and US will create growth opportunities for Europe’s food and drink industry, claim manufacturers, who together exported £11.67bn of food and drink to the country last year.
Most food and drink manufacturers have welcomed the launch of a new front-of-pack, voluntary food labelling system by the Department of Health (DH) today (June 19). But some big firms have refused to sign.
2 Sisters Food Group and health officials are probing an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB), which has hospitalised four workers at the firm’s Dial Lane site in West Bromwich yesterday.
Ready meal and sandwich firms are reeling after today’s publication of government front of pack (FoP) food labelling guidelines, which champion tough criteria for salt in foods.
Coffee giant Starbucks has refused to comment on plans to tackle tax avoidance agreed by G8 leaders in Northern Ireland yesterday (June 18).
Five thousand food jobs in Scotland and Wales have been safeguarded after the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) approved the 2 Sisters Food Group’s acquisition of Vion UK’s poultry business.