IKEA launches chicken welfare programme
Better known for its furniture, IKEA has a growing food services branch. Now it has announced a series of programmes aimed at sustainably sourcing the ingredients that go into the products it sells.
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Wetherspoon’s Brexit beer mat ‘slammed’ by food and farming alliance
The CEO of Sustain took aim at JD Wetherspoons pro-Brexit beer mats last month, questioning the claim that leaving the EU would cut food prices.
Post-doctoral researchers needed for food choice policy lab
A food security organisation is looking for academics for a three-day workshop aimed at uncovering what influences food choice and how those factors can be used to encourage consumers to make healthier and more sustainable decisions.
Fresh push for sugar tax gains momentum in Australia
With 26 countries now either imposing or soon to be imposing a sugar tax, medics in Australia are calling for nation's Government to follow suit.
Survey of French frozen chicken finds 23 per cent contains too much water
Samples of chicken of varying national origin were taken from 37 different establishments in France and tested for compliance with European water-content regulation.
The latte levy: industry reactions to 25p charge proposal
“Why charge consumers 25p a cup when the industry is willing to provide funding for recycling?” – Executive Director of the Foodservice Packaging Association.
Scientists identify exploitable genes to bolster citrus fruit against climate change
A hormone signalling pathway has been identified that may help boost citrus fruit's tolerance to the effect of global warming, including the widespread flooding on farmland.
Salmon farmers set up ‘unique fingerprint’ to fight food fraud
A salmon farming company has joined forces with traceability experts, creating unique fingerprints to verify the origin of their fish.
Almost 60 per cent of popular Chinese cod fillet mislabelled
Lack of clarity in the definition of Xue Yu and difficulty in identifying the fish once it has been prepared may have contributed to widespread mislabelling.
World-famous lab begins work on genetic project to save cocoa
MARS has teamed up with scientists at a world-famous lab to create cacao trees that will be resistant to disease, safeguarding the crop's future.
Farming industry reacts to Michael Gove’s post-Brexit vision
UK farmers will have to earn subsidies after Brexit through sustainable practices, Michael Gove, the UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, announced yesterday.
Blockchain, waste and nutrigenomics: the rising trends of 2018
A not-for-profit organisation aimed at providing food information to consumers has put together a list of its top trends for 2018.
Bioelectronic ‘nose’ to sniff out rotting food
Scientists have used a receptor found in zebrafish to detect the scent of a compound given off by rotting meat.
Updated novel foods regulations come into effect across Europe
A quicker, centralised novel foods approval system has been introduced two years on from its initial announcement in 2015.
E. coli outbreak in US and Canada linked to lettuce
Two people have died as a result of an outbreak of E. coli which has stretched between Newfoundland and Labrador on Canada's eastern coast to the US state of California, 4,500 kilometres south west.
