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Sarah West-Sadler came up smiling when she won two prizes at the Foodex Meatex Student Foodexcellence Awards. But her journey to the podium has not been plain sailing, as she tells Stefan Chomka
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Obesity has been in the headlines a lot recently, and quite rightly so. It is the second biggest killer in the world with over 400,000...
Bacterial growth comes under the spotlight
Fast, energy efficient ovens and cookers that result in good looking products and also provide excellent taste and mouthfeel, are in high demand. Lucia Cockcroft reports on some of the latest equipment now available
Full range of texture analysis
Full-scale production conditions can be reproduced in the laboratory environment
Gas chromatograph
Salt measurement comes to the fore as regulators focus on food aimed at children
Reverse osmosis system produces purified water
Multi-component testing for better product consistency
Milk Link installs new microbial test systems at three of its UHT dairies
Meter allows multi-parameter readings to be displayed
Authentic, regional and traditional ingredients add quality to foods and attract a premium price. John Dunn discovers how advances in DNA technology ensure that what the food producer offers is pukka
Microbial testing is ?revolutionised' with new luminometer
More farmer-controlled food manufacturing businesses will emerge as the agricultural sector tries to cope with CAP reform. But, without the right collaboration and expertise, many are destined to fail, says Rick Pendrous
Frantschach has designs on becoming the leader in active packaging in Europe. Stefan Chomka went to the company's Neoplex plant in Denmark to discover how it intends to do it
I remember a whisky distiller that had 36 key performance indicators (KPIs) which occupied a whole wall in the chief executive's office. They gave a...
Unilever Bestfoods (UBF) has selected Power Europe, an Exel company, to develop and manage a new automated national distribution centre at Kingswood Lakeside in Cannock,...
Westler Foods has significantly reduced supply chain problems it had been experiencing by replacing a third-party contractor based in Coventry and bringing warehousing back into...
A vertical bag-making system which creates ?boxes' from flexible materials is taking on rigid packaging in an area where it has always held the advantage...
As if to underline the potential versatility of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in the as yet largely undeveloped dairy sector, Continental company Campina has launched two...
Collaborative research into damage in the supply chain could usefully be applied to a number of different packaging types, says the convenor of a group...
Glass may not spring to mind as the typical material for microwaveable food packs, but according to one manufacturer, the market could be a significant...
British food and drink manufacturers are failing to take advantage of the operational efficiency improvements offered by adopting Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), unlike their counterparts...
For over 50 years investment in manufacturing has been an issue for the UK economy. The result has been the decline of many industries for...
New work being carried out by the University of Reading hopes to discover whether probiotic products can be beneficial in the treatment of autistic children.When...
Contaminants create problems that seem to plague meat and fish producers, as was highlighted in the press earlier this year with the Scottish salmon industry...
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has advised manufacturers that food supplement products with high levels of certain vitamins or minerals should carry warnings for consumers...
A new maize germ flour high in nutrients and having an extended shelf-life is being marketed by Limagrain Cereal Ingredients.Nutricorn is a stabilised maize germ...
Marlow Foods' European marketing director Guy Longworth is the new voice of vegetarian food manufacturing at the Food and Drink Federation (FDF).Longworth takes over from...
Tesco's attempt to slash absenteeism by refusing to pay for the first three days' sick leave may backfire, according to an employment law expert.Richard Smith...
Miles Warnick has succeeded Ross Warburton as chairman of the Federation of Bakers.Warnick, past president of the National Association of British and Irish Mills (NABIM),...
Ashworth Foods has sold its frozen unbaked savoury business to pie and slice producer Peter Hunt's Bakery Foods, a part of theLyndale group.The sale will...
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is likely to shift the spotlight back on to ready meals in its campaign to reduce levels of salt in...
The grocery intelligence company IGD has won an out-of-court settlement after extracts of its industry reports were sold on by a media group.Key Note, part...
Baker and retailer plans large factory for bake-off products
RHM-owned Manor Bakeries is closing some of its cake-making facilities in a bid to cut operating costs and eliminate overcapacity.It will close its Eastleigh factory...
MPs begin an inquiry this month into brewers which allegedly charge inflated beer prices to their pub tenants. The probe follows an investigation by the...
Speciality baker and distributor Finsbury Food Group has signed a three-year deal to produce Village Bakery's organic bread brand.Manufacturing will take place at Salisbury-based craft...
A small Cambridgeshire brewery in the process of relocating had two stainless steel fermenting vessels stolen overnight.Police said that the 2m tall containers, worth £10,000,...
US food group OSI has acquired East Anglian poultry processor GW Padley for an undisclosed sum.Padley employs more than 3,000 staff and operates primary processing...
Staff shortages may force the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to abandon some of its planned research and subcontract out other work, according to chief...
The operating profit of the Irish group Greencore, which recently disposed of its UK bakery business to concentrate on convenience foods, fell 12.1% year-on-year to...
move into convenience stores gives supermarket "stranglehold"
The government has failed to understand the urgent need to implement a gangmasters bill and is still ignorant of the scale of illegal activity, according...
John Page has been appointed chairman of the Home Grown Cereals Authority, succeeding Antony Pike who leaves this month.Page was director general of the British...
The Medical Research Council has begun a £2.7m Food Standards Agency-funded project to find the best diet for a healthy heart. The study will also...
The British Pig Executive has appointed Lorna Rankine to manage its Zoonoses Action Plan tackling salmonella.Rankine, who has a degree in business management and comes...
Lyons Seafoods, which makes products based on prawns and other seafoods, is to build a £3m factory and head office on its present site in...
Growth in food and drink exports in 2003 outstripped total UK sales abroad, reports consultancy Food from Britain, finishing 10% up on the previous year...
Fish sector promotion agency Humber Seafood Group has unveiled a fish wrap product based on the little-used dab as part of a project to promote...
The bakery industry's failure to protect workers from asthma caused by inhaling flour and grain dust has led to a crackdown by the Health and...
Wholesaler Blakemore Food Service, part of food distribution company AF Blakemore, has secured a three-year contract worth more than £50m to supply Three Cooks bakery...
charity pressing UK IMPORTers to improve supplier standards
Leading nutritionist Professor Jeya Henry of Oxford Brookes University will lead the Food and Drink Innovation Network's Sugar Seminar on June 30.The seminar, to be...
One of the UK's largest meat companies will be created following the purchase of Flagship Foods by Danish Crown's UK subsidiary Tulip. It will have...
Employers are invited to comment on proposals to help reduce work-related stress.Pressure at work accounts for more than 13m lost working days a year and...
The Food Standards Agency is hosting two open meetings this month on nutrition and the microbiological safety of food. Both will take place in London.The...
Food industry salaries compare favourably with pay in many other sectors, according to the latest annual salary survey by Croner.The average food sector director earns...
Coors Brewers in the UK has sold its 1.2m beer kegs and casks to the supply chain company TrenStar which will manage them under a...
Leading ethnic foods producer Perween Warsi, founder of S&A Foods, has regained full control of her Derby-based company by buying out the last remaining minority...
Around 100 small London food manufacturers will tempt trade buyers with their latest products at Old Spitalfields Market on June 16.The annual food fair organised...
analyst's apocalyptic warning as rationalisation gets underway
Soft drinks, food and catering group Nichols has sold its Stockport premises for £1.7m and moved the support functions of Vimto Soft Drinks, Nichols International,...
Ingredients supplier Fuerst Day Lawson (FDL) has acquired Westmill Foods' seeds processing facility at Little Walden, Cambridgeshire.The recently upgraded 6,000m2plant, which was previously owned by...
Potato supplier and processor Greenvale International and International Controlled Atmosphere have set up a joint company, Restrain, to sell what they claim is the first...
The inspection company EFSIS has introduced a halal standard for the first time.The standard is certified by UK Halal Corporation, which advises food manufacturers on...
project involving 900 youngsters looks for additives answers
Operational experience in chilled or fresh produce could make you a candidate for a position at the prepared produce division of salad and veg processor...
Workers at Bernard Matthews' Great Witchingham plant have voted for action against proposed changes to shifts and salaries.They have already held an unofficial strike about...
US-based frozen food company Schwan has bought the Hibernia factory in Bridlington, Yorkshire for the manufacture of frozen desserts. It is now recruiting.
Convenience foods manufacturer Uniq is considering closing three UK factories in the next two years with the loss of more than 550 jobs.The desserts businesses...
An 18-month investigation into one of Britain's alleged biggest illegal meat traders has ended in failure after the evidence seized by environmental health officers --...
Nestlé Rowntree is responding to the popularity of the Atkins diet by introducing low-carbohydrate versions of KitKat and Rolo in the UK in mid-July.More than...
Food companies should voluntarily stop TV advertising of unhealthy food to children or face a legal ban, according to a report by MPs.The health select...
Milk processors Robert Wiseman and Dairy Crest are seeking customers elsewhere following Asda's decision to make Arla its sole milk supplier.The decision will not however...
A small majority of food and drink firms are planning more capital investment this year than last year, according to Food Manufacture's latest annual survey.The...
Pressure grows for legislation to tackle rising levels of obesity
Most food and drink manufacturers claim to be ready for product traceability rules which take effect next January, according to Food Manufacture's new survey.A total...
Recent European Union (EU) expansion, with the possibility of cheaper imports into the UK and increased competition in export markets within the Union, holds few...
Stories of rejected fruit and vegetables have made for sorry reading in recent weeks. Their crime? Not passing the supermarkets' beauty parade.According to revelations by...
food Manufacture's latest survey shows plenty of confidence
A tea war is brewing following extensive new product development from the UK's two largest tea producers.Both Typhoo and Tetley have made large extensions to...
Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association (CCFRA) is stepping up the service it offers manufacturers in the new product development (NPD) process with the creation...
An orange juice drink that its makers claim can help boost awareness and wellbeing among Britain's youngsters has been developed through a partnership between two...
Haulage company Eddie Stobart is hoping that its heavyweight and recognisable presence on Britain's roads will enable it to gain leverage on the food shelves...
Brakes is the latest company to heed government pressure on manufacturers to improve the health credentials of processed foods with the announcement that it is...
When city lawyer and Atkins diet follower Hannah Sutter became jaded with the US snacks on offer for low-carb dieters in the UK she decided...
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