Inside food & drink manufacturing
Tesco has entered a partnership with global reusable packaging platform, Loop to launch a new way for its customers to shop and buy a wide range of food, drink, household and beauty products in reusable and durable packaging.
Drinks producer Chivas Brothers Ltd (CBL) has been fined £50,000 for health and safety failings, after an engineer visiting the site was crushed by machinery.
A new spirits facility that allows for the bottling and packaging from the smallest volumes in single casks to 30,000 litre tankers has been installed at The QAS Group in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.
Food systems urgently need to be transformed to provide equitable access to healthy diets produced in sustainable and resilient ways, according to an article published in the Lancet online.
Agri-tech company B-hive Innovations has received funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to lead a research project, which will detect early potato diseases and defects before they hit supermarket shelves.
Plant-based innovation is continuing to boom with McDonald’s entering the market with Beyond Meat and Meatless Farm partnering with pea protein supplier Equinom.