UK-based Wrights Food has expanded its product portfolio with the introduction of a new range of ready meals. The new Classic range features 19 different dishes that are made by combining traditional slow cooking methods with the ...
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Danish food packaging specialist Faerch Plast has supplied new dual colour CPET trays in sage & cream to British food firm Greencore for the re-launch of Tesco's core Italian ready meal range. The move comes as Greencore challenged Faerch ...
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Spanghero, the French meat processor that was linked to the horsemeat contamination scandal in Europe earlier this year, has re-opened with a new name - La Lauragaise. The company has been renamed after the region where it is located - in ...
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A nationwide testing of 364 beef product samples in the UK revealed that three products contained pork DNA above 1%, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The products that contained pig DNA are: ASDA Spaghetti and Meatballs, ASDA ...
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Frozen food producer Birds Eye has announced that horsemeat contamination in some of its products in UK and Ireland was caused as a result of the meat supplied by Irish meat processor QK. In February, testing revealed that Birds Eye ...
Birds Eye has pulled three beef ready meals from supermarkets in the UK and Ireland as a precaution after a product it sells in Belgium tested positive for horse DNA. The company said today (22 February) its 340g Traditional Spaghetti ...
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The European Commission has called on the EU's 27 members states to test for horse DNA in beef products. Tonio Borg, Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, has set out plans for tests to be carried out to see if food containing beef ...
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The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has found traces of potentially harmful horse drug phenylbutazone in eight horses slaughtered in the UK - and warned six may have entered the French food chain. The announcement, issued this morning (14 ...
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Nestle has dismissed suggestions its days of "easy gains" in emerging markets are over as the group recorded what one analyst described as "sustained weakness" in Asia, Oceania and Africa. The Swiss food giant this morning (14 February) ...
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European food researchers from 27 member EU states are set to meet in Brussels, Belgium, to establish plans to address the horsemeat mislabeling scandal. The EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain will outline plans to implement ...
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