The UK government has insisted the country's dairy industry should look to meet growing demand in China. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Owen Paterson is visiting China this week, in what the Government described as "the ...
Tags: UK government, dairy industry, growing demand, food trade delegation
University of Surrey is to research 5th generation mobile phone technology as part of 35m pounds project funded by the UK government and industry partners. The new 5G research centre will be funded by 11.6m pounds in government money and ...
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Russian authorities have lifted a 16-year ban on British beef and lamb imports, a decision the UK government claims could provide a GBP80m boost to the UK meat industry. Moscow banned the import of British beef and lamb in 1996 following ...
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UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a GBP5m (US$7.7m) funding programme aimed at helping improve dairy farmers' competitiveness. Cameron used Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday (11 July) to unveil the funding, which is ...
Tags: dairy, dairy industry, funding programme, dairy processors
Proposals for new rules allowing milk farmers in England to join forces on talks with buyers have been set out today (11 December). The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is consulting on legislation that would give ...
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The UK government has announced it is recommending a standardised, hybrid approach to front-of-pack (FOP) nutritional labelling. The labels outlined will incorporate a combination of guideline daily amounts (GDAs), colour coding and ...
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Food manufacturers including Nestle, Mondelez International and Unilever have announced plans to "harmonise" the way they label the nutritional information for products sold in the EU. Twelve companies, which also include Kellogg, Mars ...
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The UK government said today (10 July) there needs to be "a culture change" in the food industry to ensure the country can produce food sustainably amid "soaring" population growth. UK farming minister Jim Paice called on all in the ...
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Food manufacturers including Nestle, Mondelez International and Unilever have announced plans to "harmonise" the way they label the nutritional information for products sold in the EU. Twelve companies, which also include Kellogg, Mars ...
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) and British Retail Consortium (BRC) have published a report that claims UK retailers and manufacturers are "reaching the limit" of what they can achieve on salt reduction. The project, undertaken by ...
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The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) and British Retail Consortium (BRC) have published a report that claims UK retailers and manufacturers are "reaching the limit" of what they can achieve on salt reduction. The project, undertaken by ...
Tags: salt reduction, salt in foods, Public Health
The European Commission has granted clearance for the proposed $15 billion acquisition of Canadian company Nexen by China's state-owned CNOOC, the EC said Friday. It had been unclear whether approval from the EU for the deal, which is ...
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Hacktivist group GhostShell has posted log-in details of 1.6 million accounts they claim are taken from a series of attacks on organisations including NASA,the FBI and the European Space Agency. The Anonymous subsidiary group posted the ...
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The UK expects its tax revenues from the oil and gas industry to slip by more than a third in the current tax year as declining North Sea production levels, lower than expected oil prices and upstream tax breaks crimp its receipts, the UK's ...
The UK government has provided more than 11m GBP worth of funding to 34 major business-led collaborative food processing and manufacturing development projects, in a move which secures the country’s leadership in food technology. ...
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