The UK’s largest poultry processor Moy Park has announced a strong recovery in trading performance for last year, with pre-profits up to 24.4M for 2012 for 2012, compared with 4.8M in 2011. Moy Park delivered a strong performance in ...
2 Sisters Food Group has proposed the creation of a second shift at a Welsh chicken processing site it bought from Vion, which could create more than 200 jobs. 2 Sisters may create 200 chicken processing jobs in Anglesey The food ...
Last fall I flew halfway across the country to go grocery shopping with Everly Macario. We set out from her second-story apartment in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago and walked to the supermarket to buy a couple of?rib?steaks?that ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
A new strain of bird flu, which first originated in China and sickened more than 100, has spread to Taiwan, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). A 53-year-old Taiwanese businessman who returned from China's coastal Jiangsu ...
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has issued a ban on import of poultry and poultry products from Lower Saxony, Germany over fears of an outbreak of low-pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. The ...
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has urged producers and backyard flock owners to practice biosecurity in the wake of the H7N9 avian influenza virus that has been linked to human illnesses in China. According to the agency, the ...
Iceland-based food processing solutions provider Marel is set to unveil its I-Slice 3300 slicing machine for smoked salmon at Seafood Processing Europe, a seafood trade fair which will be held from 23-25 April 2013 in Brussels. The ...
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Canadian packaging firm Cascades has unveiled a new polystyrene foam food tray EVOK in North America, designed for packaging of meat, poultry, fish, vegetables and fruits. The company stated that it has lowered the carbon footprint of ...
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Canadian green packaging manufacturer Cascades has introduced a new polystyrene foam food tray EVOK in North America, which is made with 25% recycled material. According to the company, the new tray can be used to pack meat, poultry, ...
In its preliminary 2012/13 results published today (17 April), the firm also confirmed that it is winding up its chain of 199 US Fresh & Easy shops, which has never made a profit, at cost of 1.2 billion. The UK’s biggest supermarket ...
Tesco is “misleading” consumers over its scrapping of a pledge to only rear poultry on soya feed that’s free of genetic modification (GM), say campaigners. Tesco’s Tim Smith said it was important to be upfront ...
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Food packaging manufacturer in the UK Sirane has announced the launch of a new cooking bag which is suitable for meat, fish, poultry and vegetables. Sirane managing director Simon Balderson said the company's new Sira-Cook Supreme cooking ...
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GE has commissioned its high-performance LEAPmbr membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology at a wastewater treatment plant owned by the Spanish poultry processing company Procavi SL. GE's LEAPmbr technology allowed Procavi to improve water ...
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Flavorseal's new Shrink Bag for Poultry provide superior protection and a great-looking package for fresh and frozen whole birds and bone-in breast packs. These high-abuse bags virtually eliminate leakers, while the high shrink rate and ...
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H7N9 is a serotype of the species Influenzavirus A (avian influenza virus or bird flu virus). H7 normally circulates amongst avian populations with some variants known to occasionally infect humans. An H7N9 virus was first reported to have ...