Inside food & drink manufacturing
The Pirbright Institute in Surrey has been ordered to pay more than £77,000 for safety failings in experiments with the foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), after a successful prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
British food and drink manufacturers should be represented by an industry council, similar to the car industry’s Automotive Council, said Richard Evans, Food and Drink Federation (FDF) president.
The boss of Dairy UK has criticised the Department of Health (DH) for putting obstacles in the way of the dairy industry in the form of salt targets.
UK food and drink manufacturing professionals are being encouraged to mentor African entrepreneurs as a way of helping them to improve their underperforming businesses.
Food science and nutrition deserve a fairer hearing in the national media, while campaign groups should focus on scientific evidence not on personalities, warns the Food and Drink Federation (FDF).
The British food industry faces a bright future, provided it can blend overseas technology with the business community’s strong entrepreneurial skills, according to a leading City analyst.
A Northern Irish man was jailed, fined £8,000 and banned from managing poultry processing firms after officials found nine food safety breaches at his business, Upper Erne Lakes Poultry in Newtownbutler.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has welcomed the successful prosecution of the Cornwall-based slaughter house H R Jasper & Son Ltd for breaching regulations introduced to control the risks from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
Morrisons has fired its latest shot in a likely supermarket price war with the pledge that its prices are going to be “permanently cheaper”, as it promised to cut the cost of 1,200 everyday items.
The Real Good Food Company’s (RGFC’s) annual profits were hit by its dispute with British Sugar, part of Associated British Foods (ABF), over sugar supply, it has confirmed.