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Ron Mellow of HJ Heinz is the new chairman of the Chilled Food Association (CFA). Previously vice chairman, Mellow has been a member of CFA's...
The great and the good of academia and the industry got together last month in an attempt to resolve the impending crisis in food science. Rick Pendrous heard what they had to say
Your cut-out-and-keep guide to top employers 52. Richmond Foods
New resource helps potential users investigate new cartonboard packaging options
PE- and PS-based plastics
With plastics soaring in price, John Dunn investigates what developments are taking place to keep costs down while meeting consumer demand for convenience
This year's Metal Packaging Manufacturers' Association (MPMA) awards recognised the advances made by cans in the glass-dominated ready-to-drink (RTD) alcoholic beverages sector.In particular, MPMA director...
Unusual fruit flavours can give new products added interest
Buttery flavours are now available to vegans
Natural mango distillate ads tropical note to fruit juices or ice creams
Flavours already test-marketed can save both time and cost
When it comes to flavours, consumers have increasingly sophisticated expectations. But manufacturers and flavour houses are rising to the challenge, as Susan Birks discovers
While sour flavours are popular, dentists warn that high acid levels can damage teeth
With high fat, sugary and salty convenience foods under fire, healthy ingredients could not be more crucial. Susan Birks previews the new trends at this month's Healthy Ingredients Europe show
Biocatalysis could offer a bright new dawn to the food industry, provided the cost of enzymes in use isn't too high. Rick Pendrous reports
Wincanton operates Heinz's national distribution centre (NDC) at Wigan under an open contract which runs until 2009. Rick Pendrous describes an arrangement where both parties benefit financially from efficiency gains made
Me & my factory: Duncan McGillivray
Professor Daniel Jones, a keynote speaker at this month's Collaboration Forum, highlights the need to build a lean supply chain
Logistics costs will rise once the Working Time Directive (WTD) covering 'mobile workers' comes into force next march, according to a new survey of manufacturers...
You know how bad news nearly always seems exaggerated by the media -- that is, until you are faced with just that problem yourself. Well,...
Researchers are canvassing opinion from producers and users of packaging about a proposed International Packaging Centre of Excellence, with options for practical training, development and...
Two-thirds of UK manufacturers think that radio frequency identification (RFID) -- radio barcodes -- will not be widely adopted for at least two years, according...
Last month's K plastics show in Germany saw the latest generation of clear polypropylene (PP) bottles produced on high-output lines.Moulding equipment supplier Sidel has signed...
Following the success of its plastic top down ketchup bottle, introduced in June 2003 on its 570g tomato ketchup variant, Heinz has decided to extend...
An integrated packaging line is now available for fresh produce, meat and fish.Ishida Europe has introduced its Retail Ready Line, which includes tray denesting, weighing,...
So you've implemented systems to comply with the new genetically modified (GM) traceability and labelling legislation, potentially altering your supply chain to ensure you have...
A novel approach to the marketing of veggie burgers and sausages, a process for vacuum-microwave drying of fruit and vegetables and a fat-replacer which lowers...
The bakery industry faces a shortage of good quality wheat, after the August rain hammered much of the UK's crop.Despite the fact that wheat used...
Consumer magazine Health Which? has called for more industry action on trans fats because of the link to coronary heart disease. Suppliers of hydrogenated oils...
Heinz is boosting its presence in both the frozen and chilled sector with a number of new product launches that it hopes will compete more...
Trans fats are the latest food story to hit the headlines. Cereal bars and biscuits are in the spotlight as consumers learn of the dangers...
The best new product development (NPD) in sausages was acknowledged last month by the British Pig Executive (BPEX), which announced the winners of its Catering...
Cauldron Foods is ensuring that vegetarians don't get left out in the cold this Christmas with the launch of a limited edition seasonal line.Its new...
Smoked salmon with a distinctive flavour of birch and juniper has been developed by Spey Valley Smokehouse for Sainsbury's Taste the Difference range.The Scottish smoked...
Pete and Johnny (PJ), the self-claimed founder of the UK smoothie market back in the early 90s, says it is re-energising the sector to appeal...
Consumers will by now probably be familiar with the concept of low-carb pasta, but Italian pasta manufacturer Pasta Lensi has gone one stage further with...
Thornton's is inviting consumers to go on a "voyage of discovery" with the launch of a luxury box of chocolates for the male connoisseur, which...
Hargreaves Contracting has won a £4.5m contract to build a morning goods plant in Yorkshire for Warburtons, plans for which were first reported in Food...
Radio-frequency ID tags could receive a boost after approval by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute of a new standard for their use at ultra-high frequencies....
Industry will be allowed 3% more greenhouse gas emission allowances than the government suggested in May, under the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme for 2005-07.Allocations...
Food ingredient distributor Albion Chemicals and citric acid supplier Archer Daniel Midland (ADM) of the US have formed a joint venture to build a £200,000...
Fire damage temporarily disrupted production at Premier Foods' pickles and sauces factory in Bury St Edmonds.The plant makes Branston and Haywards pickles and Waistline and...
A campaign has begun to give the famous Lincolnshire sausage Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status, preventing butchers from passing off other products as Lincolnshire sausages.The...
SirA short time ago I asked whether your readers would be able to support the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation by sending their unwanted mobile...
Marriage of convenience taps into the healthy eating market
Sweeping changes at Sainsbury, desperate to restore its position as middle England's favourite food retailer, are likely to result in fewer suppliers, as it tries...
Nostalgic ex-pats contributed to an 8% increase in sales of British food and drink to France in 2003, according to the export consultancy Food From...
An Organic Supplier Development Programme established by the Welsh Development Agency is set to boost business for 11 food and drink companies.Wrexham-based consultant Levercliff Associates...
Britain should adopt a labelling system similar to that used in Australia and New Zealand which helps consumers make healthy choices without stigmatising whole categories...
Attempts by the food industry to squash Sid the Slug's low-salt advertising campaign have failed.The 1.8m tall, animated mollusc was created for the Food Standards...
Bakery giant RHM is considering selling its subsidiary Golden West, which is one of McDonald's main suppliers. Golden West, which RHM bought in 1998, is...
Manufacturers say it is hard to see benefit of staying in Britain
Glenmorangie, the last listed family-owned Scotch whisky distiller in Britain, has a French owner following its sale to the luxury goods manufacturer Louis Vuitton Moët...
Sainsbury is to switch tomatoes from cans to a new carton from Tetra Pak, which said that the Tetra Recart carton could be sterilised and...
The Poly-Clip ICA8700 automatic double clipper (Processing Supplement, Food Manufacture October 2004, p22) is an improved automatic double clipper that works electronically to process large...
Europe's biggest beet sugar factory, British Sugar's at Wissington, near King's Lynn, processed a record 18,043t in 24 hours as the annual 'campaign' gathered momentum.From...
G Costa is to close the Elsenham unit of its preserves company Elsenham Quality Foods with the loss of about 35 jobs. Costa said that...
More than £250,000 has been awarded to seven companies and organisations to boost sales of British pork and pork products.Projects supported by the latest British...
Aggrieved Tesco suppliers will in future be able to complain anonymously to the retailer about poor treatment. In a move designed to appease critics, boss...
Engineers want a licensing scheme to recognise what they consider to be an undervalued profession where numbers are in serious decline.It is hoped the scheme,...
Richard Greenhalgh, who stepped down as executive chairman of Unilever UK in July, takes over this month as chairman of the farmer-owned dairy co-operative First...
Growing food science skills shortage prompts urgent action
The Red Meat Industry Forum (RMIF) has dramatically improved efficiency and cut costs for processors since its launch three years ago, according to chairman Peter...
The Fairtrade Foundation has begun a three-year project to boost the use of Fairtrade branded products in catering.It is launching a directory (available at http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/ ...
The Axentis Group, the holding company of Icefresh Foods, has bought gourmet dessert manufacturer Prospero for an undisclosed sum.Prospero, which is based in Holt, Norfolk...
Greggs, the bakery products manufacturer and high street baker, said that like-for-like sales in the 18 weeks to October 16 increased by 6.2% year-on-year, despite...
Spending by UK food firms on research and development (R&D) is falling behind that of their global competitors, according to the 2004 R&D scoreboard compiled...
Arla Foods will close its Ruislip dairy in west London and its Newcastle-upon-Tyne dairy next year with the loss of more than 400 jobs.The closures...
Workers at Boddingtons' Strangeways brewery were expected to hold a 48-hour strike on November 1 and ban future overtime in a campaign to prevent closure...
Investment in automated keg line should boost output by 50%
Two months after completing a management buyout, Yorkshire-based Oakdale Bakeries has purchased the Sunmalt malt loaf brand from Allied Bakeries for an undisclosed sum.Oakdale will...
Somerfield is buying 114 Safeway stores, seven petrol forecourts and a distribution depot at Welwyn Garden City for £115m and taking on 9,000 Safeway staff.The...
FareShare, the charity which redistributes surplus food from retailers and processors to the needy, goes it alone next month.Up to now FareShare, which was established...
Primary school children are being fed dangerous levels of fat, sugar and salt, said the organic campaign group the Soil Association (SA), which commissioned analysis...
Troubled ready meals producer Northern Foods has seen the departure of another senior member of staff -- finance director Sean Christie, after 25 years service.Analysts...
Processed poultry supplier Moy Park is investigating how traces of the banned veterinary medicine nitrofuran contaminated up to 23t of organic chicken distributed to supermarkets...
plans to outsource production may mean UK jobs are exported
G Costa needs a firebrand general manager to oversee major expansion of two factories in Wales producing its Oriental food range Blue Dragon and third-party...
Europe is to abolish rules which regulate pack sizes for a range of food and drink products.The European Commission said that consumer protection laws had...
The Soil Association has attacked the government's record on monitoring pesticides in food. It claimed in a new consumer guide -- What's your poison? --...
The UK is to get nearly euro 5m in 2005 from the European Commission (EC) to tackle animal diseases, including euro 5.6m for transmissible spongiform...
Meantime Brewing and Union Coffee Roasters, both of London, have launched what is claimed to be the first Fairtrade beer. The Meantime Coffee Beer is...
Big UK brewers will begin adding general health warnings to their beers this month in a bid to prove that they are serious about tackling...
The food industry is seen as unnecessarily damaging the nation's health according to a survey of 30,000 adults in the UK.The survey, for the Institute...
The European Commission is to appeal against the recent World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling against European Union subsidies for sugar producers (Food Manufacture October 2004,...
The British Egg Industry Council (BEIC) has called for a ban on imports of Spanish eggs after outbreaks of salmonella enteritidis were linked to their...
New hygiene rules produce opposition from official inspectors
MI5 is hunting food industry experts for its National Security Advice Centre, which provides counter-terrorism expertise.The spooks are looking for people probably with a scientific...
Some manufacturers may have to revise testing procedures following approval by the Standing Committee of the Food Chain and Animal Health of the European Union...
Firms fear being forced to limit storage because of new guidance
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