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Maintaining standards in meat processing
David Lindars, Technical Policy Advisor at the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA), explains how standards for British pork are assured.
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“Brexit bonus” as UK food and drink exports top £22 billion in 2017
Scotch whisky, salmon and chocolate are big hitters in the growing overseas market place according to 2017's UK Government figures.
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British food system in a ‘vulnerable’ state, Lords committee hears
Leading figures in the UK's food and drink sector raised their concerns about the impact Brexit could have on the country's food system.
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Plugging a £200 million hole: GS1 UK on a new product data platform
GS1 UK, the not-for-profit organisation behind the barcode, is launching productDNA:hub this year, a single, shared platform that provides a uniform catalogue of product data and imagery that could boost the UK grocery sector by as much as £20bn. Jim Dickson is Head of Retail and Grocery at GS1 UK…
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Report calls on food industry to transform how it feeds livestock
Amidst burgeoning consumer demand for flexitarian products and rising debate on the future of meat, a new report calls on retailers and food service companies to scrutinise what is fed to the livestock – such as pork, chicken as well as farmed fish – used in products they sell.
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Clean Air -The Vital Ingredient to Food and Beverage Manufacturing
29 January 2018 | By Camfil
Air is the only ingredient that is involved in every aspect of Food and Beverage Manufacturing...
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Food provenance group sets out aim to ’empower the consumer’
Happerley has created a trade network that provides certification for food suppliers by tracing their products right back to the primary producer.
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Whitepaper: Gelatine Species Determination – to aid labelling claims
A new approach to gelatine testing...
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Professor Chris Elliott
11 January 2018 | By
Professor of Food Safety and Director of the Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University Belfast.
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Study gives rare glimpse into supermarket’s sustainability scheme
In one of the first analyses of a company-led sustainability programme in the food and agriculture space, Stanford researchers found a major grocery chain fostered increased adoption of environmental practices at the farm level.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Sins of Seafood
4 January 2018 | By Agilent
With seafood and aquaculture being the most valuable and highest traded commodity in the world, it’s an industry which inevitably is the most susceptible to fraud...
