All news articles for October 2007

Uniq upturn in fortunes

02-Oct-2007

Uniq has lodged a planning application to extend its Smedleys Salads factory at Pinchbeck in Spalding, Lincolnshire, in a move that could see up to...

Price-fixing could be industry-wide curse

02-Oct-2007

Lack of resources at the Office of Fair Trading (OFT ) may explain why more food companies haven't been busted for price-fixing, law experts have...

Food industry has fanned flames of E-number hysteria

02-Oct-2007

Suppliers want rational debate on additives

Study fails to highlight effects of additives in isolated context

02-Oct-2007 By Elaine Watson

Scientist queries attempt to weed out toxic additives without doing fuller impact study

Finsbury Foods buys Anthony Alan Foods

02-Oct-2007 By Elaine Watson

Finsbury Food Group has snapped up low fat cake maker Anthony Alan Foods in a £3.75M deal.Anthony Alan, a sales and marketing business which has the...

FDF backs vision of UK as world leader in manufacturing

01-Oct-2007 By Rod Addy

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) backed prime minister Gordon Brown's vision of the UK as a world leader in modern manufacturing at a Labour party...

Getting premium products right

01-Oct-2007 By Sarah Britton

Premium brand extensions were set to fail, processors were warned at Product Premiumisation, an event organised by Food & Drink Innovation...

Manufacturers not whiter than white on food colourings

01-Oct-2007 By Sarah Britton

Consumers are wising up to foods that claim to be natural, yet contain colours that aren’t derived from food sources, warn experts.“There’s a...

Scottish lamb crisis looming

01-Oct-2007

A mounting welfare crisis in the Scottish hills, where 250,000 lambs are running out of feed, could threaten supplies of prime lamb for processors...

Brewers predict fermentation times using new software tools

01-Oct-2007 By Elaine Watson

Predictive software tools developed by researchers at Newcastle University have helped brewers Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) and Charles Wells...

Manufacturers aim to slash water use in £3.5M project

01-Oct-2007 By Elaine Watson

Academics at three British universities have teamed up with food manufacturers on a £3.5M project aiming to slash factory water consumption by 50%,...