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Iceland announces aim for plastic free own brand by 2023
Getting ahead of the trend with many UK supermarkets as they move to more sustainable modes of operation, Iceland has announced it aims to be plastic free by 2023.
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Whitepaper: Gelatine Species Determination – to aid labelling claims
A new approach to gelatine testing...
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UK Food and Drink Federation ‘welcomes’ 25-year environment plan launch
Among the actions outlined is a pledge to eliminate all avoidable waste by 2050 and all avoidable plastic waste by end of 2042.
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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.
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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.
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New product data and image service for 2018
productDNA:hub is a universal service for retailers and suppliers to share and manage images and data, using the same language to describe their products.
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Plain packaging could cut drinks industry profits by $300 billion
Plain packaging has been a legal requirement on all cigarettes sold in the UK since May this year. But how would the same kind of ban affect the food and drinks industry?
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Nearly half of Canada’s fish mislabelled, report suggests
An investigation has uncovered how food fraud, a criminal industry worth CAD$52 billion worldwide, is affecting seafood in the Canadian capital.
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World-first project sets out to give polystyrene fish boxes a fresh lease on life
A consortium of companies has been granted EU funding to carry out a project that will turn used polystyrene fish boxes into yoghurt pots.
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Making it personal: The biggest food and drink trend of 2018
Personal food is being trumpeted as one of the biggest food trends of 2018. And it certainly sounds trendy enough. But what does it really mean? Precipice Design's CEO Julie Jenson Bennett talks us through it.
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Considering putting it in a can? There’s a website for that…
A new website has been launched to help new businesses get to grips with that slipperiest of topics: the drinks can.
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Is your baby food product fully protected?
After a recent blackmail case in Germany in which baby food was poisoned with ethylene glycol, we hear from Mettler Toledo about tampering protection.
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2 Sisters Food Group to go before Parliamentary committee
The latest development in the saga caused by the exposure of unsafe working practices at a poultry plant, 2 Sisters' CEO will appear before the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.
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EU crack down on dual-quality products
New guidelines tell national governments where to go when they suspect something isn't right with the quality of food they import.
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Risking Everything: Our addiction to fake foods is harming us in more ways than we think
Our devotion to plastic convenience is coming back to bite us. It is time for action, says Frederikke Magnussen, co-founder of A Plastic Planet, before it's too late.
