British food and drinks companies are losing over £11.2bn to fraud and error annually which is equal to over 85% of their total profits. The food and drink industry can boost its profitability by £4.48bn, or more than 34% ...
Tags: Food Firms, Fraud, Agriculture
The Industry of the Future Forum is a Food & Drink Business initiative. It is being held because future-proofing the food and drink industry is an essential. And future-proofing is only possible by understanding what is likely to lie ahead, ...
Tags: Food, Drink Business, Packaging, Printing
The ISO 22000 international standard specifies the requirements for a food safety management system that involves the following elements: interactive communication system management prerequisite programs HACCP principles Critical ...
Tags: ISO 22000 Standard, certification
ACE Group today advised that companies in the food and drink industry could face more claims from consumers as a result of new European food labeling regulations that come into force later this year. The purpose of the new regulation is ...
Scottish government is set to launch a new food safety regulator, Food Standards Scotland (FSS), which will takeover the operations carried out by UK organization, the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The announcement comes as Food (Scotland) ...
Tags: food safety, Food, Agriculture, Drink
A University of Liverpool researcher, part of Action on Sugar, which aims to reduce unnecessary amounts of sugar in the diet, says sugar is the new tobacco. Professor Simon Capewell of the university's Institute of Psychology, Health and ...
Tags: Sugar, Sugar in Food
Four companies have confirmed they will be exhibiting for the first time, increasing the breadth of services offered, and deepening the show's penetration of two key sectors – chemicals and food. New exhibitors, Woodman Hill and ...
In excess of 100 senior representatives from the Irish dairy industry gathered in Dublin today for the launch of Bord Bia's national 'Sustainable Dairy Assurance Scheme' (SDAS). Delegates heard how the new dairy scheme is fundamental to ...
With the foundation of the Regional Section North America and its merger with the Regional Section Mexico, German Water Partnership (GWP) expands its international activities to North America and concretely pushes ahead with initiations of ...
A new trade agreement has opened the door to UK exports of beef to Singapore worth an estimated £10 million a year to the UK economy. Singapore's ban on UK beef, put in place following the identification of BSE, has been lifted ...
Tags: Beef Exports, Food
Mergers and acquisitions in the UK food and drink industry hit a 10-year low at just 73 deals in the first half of this year, revealed figures from information services company Experian. Could AG Barr's acquisition of GSK's Lucozade and ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
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. About 5,000 food manufacturing jobs ...
Tags: OFT approval, 2 Sisters, Vion
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. Trading places: New US/EU ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Interface Food & Drink (IFD) has granted £75,000 to fund three collaborative projects between Scottish food and drink companies and Scottish universities to accelerate research and innovation in Scotland’s food and drink ...
Tags: Food&Drink, Agriculture
The government is to launch a plan to reduce the nation’s reliance on food and drink imports and increase consumption of UK produce. David Cameron delivered a video message praising the food and drink industry’s export ...
Tags: Defra, Food and Drink Imports