Norfolk-based Crisp Maltings has capitalised on the growth of craft brewing and distilling with the opening of a speciality malt plant as part of a £6.7m spend.
An imminent auditing standard will make food safety culture within food businesses a core focus, but will require industry, not auditors, to assess and improve it.
Premier Foods chief executive officer (CEO) Gavin Darby would regret his decision to stand again for CEO if he were re-elected, according to Paul Wilkinson, former chairman of Rank Hovis McDougall (RHM) and Thorntons.
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) was “greatly encouraged” by the Cabinet agreement on a ‘soft’ Brexit struck at Chequers on 6 July, urging a swift resolution from the UK and EU27.
A Scottish cheesemaker implicated in a fatal E.coli 0157 outbreak in 2016 has welcomed a sheriff’s ruling that the company did not breach food safety regulations.
Blockchain will have its place in the food and drink supply chain, but won’t be the answer to all of its problems, an expert in supply chain has claimed.
People are the key drivers of change within the supply chain, not companies, according to Coca-Cola European Partners’ (CCEP’s) associate director of warehousing Clare Bottle.
The Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) and the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) have signed an agreement to develop a new multi-species livestock traceability service for England.
British food and drink is being held to account by regulatory bodies and the public more than ever before. Are businesses taking food safety as seriously as everyone else?
Food manufacturers are being invited to apply for a share of a £750,000 research fund into better coeliac disease diagnostics and gluten-free food production.
A total of 150 jobs could be created at Samworth Brothers’ Bradgate Bakery site in Leicester, if plans to build an extension at the factory are approved by the local council.
Greenyard Frozen UK has recalled frozen vegetables it supplies to top grocery retail chains, claiming they might be contaminated with listeria amid a wider international incident that has snowballed in the past few months.
This year's Food Safety Conference examined the Food Standards Agency's update on its Regulating Our Future Programme and how businesses need to focus more on allergens.
Debates over the blockchain process and its perceived use in preventing fraud in the food industry continued to be debated at the Food Safety Conference in Birmingham.
Head of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) Andy Morling said it was time to view food crime through a “criminal lens” rather than seeing it as simply a product issue.
A gas leak at Carlsberg’s Northampton Brewery that left one man dead has been judged accidental but preventable, following an inquest into his death this week.
Bakkavor has sold Anglia Crown, the prepared meals firm supplying healthcare customers, in a management buyout to managing director Paul Howell and Andrew Lone, who was previously head of finance and operations.
Meat alternatives producer Quorn Foods has signed a deal with Johnston Logistics UK to receive, store and distribute ingredients and packaging for the manufacturer.
The entry deadline for the Food Manufacture Excellence Awards is approaching rapidly, so potential winners need to ensure they complete their applications soon.
An investigation is ongoing into the cause of a fire at a coffee processing plant in Banbury that resulted in the callout of firefighters from three counties.
EU regulations on food and drink should be transposed into UK law before the end of the Brexit transitional period, in order to avoid a regulatory vacuum, according to an expert in food law.
Consumers have been warned to cook frozen vegetables thoroughly following a Europe-wide outbreak of listeriosis that has been linked to frozen sweetcorn.
Brexit offers unparalleled innovation opportunities for the UK food and drink industry, so long as firms are prepared for regulatory changes, according to a leading food science expert.
Nestlé has opened a new wind farm at Sanquhar in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, that will supply half of the annual electricity demands of its UK and Ireland operations.
Experts from across the food and drink industry have launched a new system to promote collaborative efforts to solve some of the world’s food problems.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has successfully completed a pilot using blockchain technology in a cattle slaughterhouse, claiming that the data tool offers ‘great opportunities’ for further development.
Young’s Seafood’s US export growth, as well as UK foodservice and retail wins, helped boost its sales over the past year, but the performance still failed to prevent its profit slide.
Meat processor Tulip has become the latest food business to sign up to the UK Plastics Pact, as part of its commitments to tackling plastic usage and food waste as part of its new CSR policy.
