The UK food industry has fallen short of the 5% target of sugar reduction across food products set by Public Health England (PHE) in the first year of its 4-year sugar reduction program. According to a report unveiled by the executive ...
Tags: Food Industry, Sugar
Public Health England (PHE), an executive agency of the UK's Department of Health, has published new guidelines designed to reduce the amount of sugar in nine food product categories. The public health body is challenging manufacturers to ...
New food and drink labels would be introduced across Europe as per the new European rules that will come into effect from 13 December 2014. In response to the new rules, food and drink manufacturers are making wide-ranging changes to ...
Tags: drink labels, vegetable oils
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has today confirmed details of a new round of tests of beef products for horse meat contamination. The tests have been requested by the European Commission as part of the follow-up to last year's horse meat ...
Tags: FSA, certification, Agriculture, Food
A major supplier of prepared vegetables to the UK food industry has recently taken delivery of another EZstrip cake pump from NOV Mono. Measham-based AB Produce trialled an EZstrip cake pump before installing its first unit a year ago, and ...
The European Commission and European Union member states have decided to ban the flavoring substance 3-acetyl-2,5-dimethylthiophene over safety concerns. The decision to remove this substance from the list of approved flavorings was ...
German retailer Tengelmann has confirmed its Kaiser's supermarket chain has pulled frozen lasagnes from shelves amid concerns the lines could contain horse meat. A spokesperson for the group told just-food today (11 February) that it had ...
Tags: Horse Meat, Grocer Kaise, Pulls Lasagnes
The UK government is to meet industry officials to determine whether the supply chain needs to be placed under greater scrutiny to ensure food security in the country. A spokesperson for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural ...
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The UK food industry has agreed to report the results of its testing program to the Food Standards Agency (FSA), in the wake of the ongoing horse meat contamination incident. This decision has been taken following a meeting between the ...
Tags: UK food industry, testing program, FSA
Arla Foods Ingredients is investing 102M in a new lactose manufacturing facility in Denmark that will have "a major impact on the supply of lactose to the UK food industry". Arla's new lactose plant in Denmark will have a major impact on ...
Tags: lactose supply, food industry, lactose
The UK food industry would face a labour shortfall, export uncertainty and a regulatory black hole if Britain walked away from the EU, experts have warned. Quitting Europe would bring ‘mind blowing’ consequences for the UK ...
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From a sustainability standpoint, 2012 might be characterised as a year when the world went backwards - or at a pinch stayed still - but the food industry moved forward. There are plenty of campaigners who would beg to differ on the ...
Tags: CSR, Industry, Agriculture Food
One of the UK’s largest own-label cake and pastry manufacturers has been snapped up by a private equity firm in GBP 23.5M management buy-in deal (MBI). McCambridge's cake division bakes one in 10 of every retail pre-packed ...
Tags: cake, pastry, private equity, McCambridge
Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King today (9 October) called on the UK food industry to adopt common front-of-pack nutrition labels. King said the sector should "put aside their differences" and introduce "universal" labelling. ...
Tags: Sainsbury, Justin King, food industry, nutrition label
Cutting regulation, reforming agricultural policy and buying British will boost the UK food industry and help create jobs, Owen Paterson, the new Secretary of State for the Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has said. ...
Tags: agricultural policy, food and drinks sector, UK economy