M&S announces that it will stop selling products containing Angora Wool and that it has updated its animal welfare policy to remove all Angora from its supply chain. The decision means that all production of M&S products containing Angora ...
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Retailers, including Marks & Spencer, Calvin Klein, H&M and Topshop, came to the agreement after horrific videos of the wool’s manufacturing process came to light two weeks ago, according to the Sunday Times. Angora wool is loved ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released the final version of a voluntary plan to phase out the use of certain antibiotics in food animals. Antibiotics are added to the feed or drinking water of cattle, hogs, poultry and other ...
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Poultry suppliers to 2 Sisters Food Group’s Coupar Angus plant – slated for closure with the loss of 200 jobs – had received conflicting investment messages, according to the Scottish government. Speaking after meeting ...
It's not possible for an organisation to be aware of and secure every mobile device on the network, not matter how much the IT department tries, because staff will always connect their own smartphones and tablets to the office wireless ...
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Marel Stork, an Icelandic supplier of poultry processing equipment, is set to introduce a new high frequency Water Bath Stunner. The Water Bath Stunner complies with EU legislation standards.It allows poultry processors to meet the ...
Environment secretary Owen Paterson has succeeded in his mission to persuade Russian authorities to sign an export deal for British beef and lamb, expected to be worth £100M over the next three years. The DEFRA boss has signed a ...
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Animal Welfare Approved (AWA) has introduced a new food certification label for 100% grassfed meat products in Canada. The new food label ensures that products, which are marked as grassfed, come from animals fed with 100% grass and ...
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Some 83% of UK consumers want method of production labelling, which clearly identifies the farm system used to produce the food, extended to meat and dairy products. Almost as many, 79%, said farm animal welfare was important when deciding ...
US-based full-service supermarket chain Roche Bros has introduced new chicken and pork options, expanding its meat department offerings. The chain is offering chicken with no added antibiotics and Niman Ranch all natural pork. According ...
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More than half of the raw ground turkey and patty products we recently analyzed contained fecal bacteria, and 90 percent had at least one of the five bacteria that we looked for, including some notorious for causing foodborne illness, like ...
Posted by Rick Lingle, Technical Editor -- Packaging Digest, 3/18/2013 2:51:40 PM Family-owned Foster Farms today announced last week that its fresh chicken products have earned humane certification from American Humane Association. The ...
Mediaplanet Publishing today released a special report entitled, The Organic Movement. The publication will be distributed as a special 12 page section within the Washington Post and will also be distributed at numerous industry events and ...
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The ABP Food Group claims to have found the source of the horse meat in the burgers produced at its Silvercrest Foods facility in Ireland and has halted production at the site in County Monaghan. Tesco published full-page apologies to its ...
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The Institute of Food Science and Technology ‘s 2013 Spring conference, being held jointly with the Institute of Food Research will take place on 17-18 April 2013 in Norwich. Marks and Spencer is the prime sponsor for the ...
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