22-Nov-2011 - The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is working with Strathclyde Police to investigate the death of a worker at an abattoir in Scotland.
01-Nov-2011 - Product recalls are a growing problem within the food industry as supply chain complexities and the fast moving nature of the sector mean problems that occur during manufacture have the potential to be considerably magnified as they reach supermarket shelves.
13-Oct-2011 - Mars Food’s recall of some of its Dolmio PastaVita products underlines the need for effective contingency planning, according to legal specialists.
03-Oct-2011 - All food businesses - including both foodservice outlets and manufacturers - will eventually be expected to have a food hygiene rating, which will be made available to the general public for scrutiny.
03-Oct-2011 - News has emerged that an eight-month outbreak of E.coli across the UK made 250 people ill and resulted in one person dying.
03-Oct-2011 - Mettler-Toledo Safeline has launched a new due diligence enhancement for its metal detection systems to strengthen control and security at critical control points (CCP) on food processing and packing lines.
03-Oct-2011 - Recalls of free-from products are rising rapidly as the market grows to meet demand.
03-Oct-2011 - Personalised nutrition is set to receive a boost with the broadcast of a new primetime Channel 4 TV series this autumn.
03-Oct-2011 - News that Denmark is to become the first country in the world to introduce a tax on foods with saturated fat, in a bid to foster healthy eating, has sharply divided British opinion.
21-Sep-2011 - A new data monitoring system designed to manage hazard analysis critical control points (HACCP) is faster and easier to use than paper-based systems, claims its developer SAFAS, a consultancy in food hygiene and health and safety.
19-Sep-2011 - UK importers have welcomed the lifting of an EU ban on Egyptian produce which they argue should never have been imposed.
15-Sep-2011 - Food trade bodies have slammed the “muddled” publication of new government guidance on food date labelling, and called for more clarity on date labels.
12-Sep-2011 - Research into the effectiveness and accuracy of allergen warnings on food will be commissioned by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) later this year.
07-Sep-2011 - The Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) Board has rejected European Commission (EC) proposals to relax the ban on feeding animal protein to pigs, poultry and fish. The ban was introduced as a food safety control measure following the BSE crisis in cattle.
02-Sep-2011 - Craft bakers fear they have been unfairly demonised by a report highlighting the high salt content of bread.
31-Aug-2011 - Several UK research organisations have answered a call made only three days ago for scientific support to help food manufacturers meet their commitments on salt reduction under the Public Health Responsibility Deal.
26-Aug-2011 - The prospect of a fat tax has lurched back into view following a damning Lancet editorial claiming the food industry is failing to tackle the UK’s obesity “pandemic”.
08-Aug-2011 - Sous Vide Supreme has hit back after FoodManufacture.co.uk published an article in which a food safety expert warned that homemade sous vide food could cause botulism.
05-Aug-2011 - Southall food manufaturer Quality Foods has been fined more than £16,000 for numerous food hygeine offences after council inspectors found glass in a samosa, ingredients buckets covered in slime and machines covered in caked-on food and grease.
03-Aug-2011 - An article published in lifestyle magazine Wallpaper about “cutting edge” food preparation techniques so worried food safety expert, Dr Jo Head that she contacted FoodManufacture.co.uk to share her fears about foodborne botulism.
02-Aug-2011 - Version 6 of the British Retail Consortium (BRC) Global Standard for Food Safety could lead to more unannounced audits being forced on manufacturers, according to a third-party certification body.
01-Aug-2011 - Environmental health officers (EHOs) have come out strongly against plans being considered by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to move from a local to a centralised system of managing food safety inspection of food business operations.
01-Aug-2011 - Testo has added an extension to its Saveris data monitoring system, which makes it suitable for use during the transport of food products.
01-Aug-2011 - Advances have been achieved in mapping the proteome of the organism responsible for the recent E.coli outbreak in France and Germany, thanks to a collaboration between analytical equipment specialist Thermo Fisher Scientific and the UK's Health Protection Agency (HPA).
01-Aug-2011 - Walsall-based pork scratching manufacturer Graham Simmons & Sons of Walsall still uses soda crystal to remove grease and keep its premises safe by avoiding slips in a tried and tested process that is over 100 years old.