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Fire broke out in the refrigeration unit of a Shropshire food logistics firm

Fire in food logistics refrigeration unit

By Michael Stones

A fire, sparked by a refrigeration unit, at a food logistics site was extinguished by two fire engines from the Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service on Wednesday April 27.

Improving forklift truck safety is the aim of a new training programme

Forklift truck safety boosted by training

By Rick Pendrous

An innovative, new safety awareness course has been introduced, which focuses on the dangers presented by forklifts in the workplace not just for operators but for all those working alongside them.

Campden BRI gets UKAS approval for mycotoxins

Campden BRI gets UKAS approval for mycotoxins

By Rick Pendrous

Campden BRI has received accreditation from the UK Accreditation Service (UKAS) for its ergot mycotoxin testing method. Ergot alkaloids are mycotoxins which mainly affect cereals, such as wheat, rye, barley and oats and can cause problems from long-term...

A containerised CHP installation, which is typically used in food factories (courtesy of Clarke Energy)

CHP finds favour in chilled operations

By Rick Pendrous

Manufacturers with a requirement to chill food should be looking at using combined heat and power (CHP) units to meet their needs now that the technology has improved and the economics are more favourable, a provider of ‘build, own and operate’ systems...

Ooft vending machines will heat frozen ready meals

Vending hot ready meals from frozen products

By Rick Pendrous

A new vending machine, which produces hot meals from frozen products, will be launched on to the market over the next two months, according to the ceo of Bidvest Foodservice, the company behind the innovation.

CHEP will supply 100,000 pallets to Iceland's container devanning operation

Iceland signs three-year pallet deal with CHEP

By Rick Pendrous

Iceland has signed a new three-year deal with pallet provider CHEP that is expected to deliver supply chain efficiencies in the frozen food supermarket chain’s operations, both in the UK and internationally.

Chairman Keith Boardall (left) and deputy chief executive Marcus Boardall

Frozen distributor Reed Boardall reports steady results for 2015

By Rick Pendrous

Reed Boardall Group, the Yorkshire-based cold storage and transport firm has just reported another year of steady performance with revenues rising to just under £66M in the year to March 31 2015, an increase of 3% from the previous year’s total sales...

Yale launches new pallet truck

Stand or sit with new pallet truck

By Rick Pendrous

A new series of rider pallet trucks, claimed to combine the key benefits of platform and seated forklift trucks, has been introduced by Yale Europe Materials Handling.

A new Exports Commission is needed urgently to boost exports: CBI

Set up new Exports Commission, urges CBI

By Michael Stones

An independent, national Exports Commission should be set up to boost exports – including food and drink exports – the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has told government.

New training partners: Charles Reed, WRBM group md (L), and Virtual College's chairman Bob Gomersall

Appetite Learning launched to help plug skills gap

By Michael Stones

Appetite Learning is the name of new business partnership launched to help plug the skills gap by the Food Manufacture Group’s publisher William Reed Business Media (WRBM) and Virtual College, a leading provider of e-learning and online training.

The MSC is developing an online tool for protecting against seafood fraud

MSC trials traceability tool against seafood fraud

By Rick Pendrous

The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has been undertaking trials of a new seafood traceability tool in response to increasing incidents of fraud in the sector, where non-sustainable fish varieties are being passed off as sustainable species.

Cyclists are increasingly vulnerable on city streets

Truck driver blind spots will continue to kill cyclists

By Rick Pendrous

The Safer Lorry Scheme, which becomes effective in London from September and makes it mandatory for lorries to be fitted with a new mirror system to help reduce the growing number of accidents involving cyclists, has been labelled as a “fiasco” by a supplier...

Driving Scotttish economic growth: logistics makes a key contribution

Scotland’s growth depends on logistics

By Michael Stones

Efficient logistics are a key driver of growth in the Scottish economy, according to a new report from the Freight Transport Association (FTA).

Tesco is under investigation by the Serious Fraud office, the GCA and the FRC

Financial watchdog focuses on supplier relations

By Rick Pendrous

The complex relationships between retailers and their suppliers is to be investigated by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) over the coming year, it was announced in its 11th annual report published today (May 29).

Norbert Dentressangle clocked up revenue of €5.1bn (£3.6bn) in the year to December 31, 2014

Norbert Dentressangle bought by US firm

By Rod Addy

Norbert Dentressangle (ND) has been acquired by US-based giant XPO Logistics for €3.2bn (£2.3bn), one of the biggest supply chain deals of recent years.

IPS offers a range of contract packing services to well-known UK food brands

Nestlé forges contract packing deal

By Rod Addy

Nestlé has sealed a deal with Eddie Stobart and IPS, the UK’s largest independent contract packer, to secure a range of packaging services and the creation of display units. 

Mining and sharing big data could flag up emerging food safety problems

Big data is future for better food safety

By Rick Pendrous

Food giant Nestlé has suggested that the huge amount of data collected by companies such as itself and regulatory authorities like the Food Standards Agency (FSA) should be shared so that it can be ‘mined’ for information about emerging food safety problems.

Complex accounting systems can make companies vulnerable to food fraud, says Jack

Forensic accounting can track food fraud

By Rod Addy

Forensic accounting can track food fraud and must be a weapon in the arsenal of the UK Food Crime Unit, according to Lisa Jack, professor of accounting at the University of Portsmouth. 

Aldridge: 'From strength to strength'

Controversial food science deal to offer 90 roles

By Rod Addy

Up to 90 research posts are being created by a £19M investment at the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA), but fears have surfaced that its privatisation could damage its work.

The exploited workers were employed to pick Brussels sprouts

GLA revokes Dudley gangmaster’s licence

By Rod Addy

A gangmaster has lost her licence after what a judge described as “a serious dereliction of duty” in her treatment of workers picking peas and Brussels sprouts.

KQF claims the halal macon rashers are a healthier kind of convenience food

Halal chicken and beef rashers launched

By Rod Addy

Halal food manufacturer KQF has launched halal macon rashers, bacon-style strips of smoked beef or chicken, which are the first such products to be certified by the Halal Monitoring Committee (HMC).

A shortage of HGV drivers will affect the food industry

Stinging HGV crisis to hit supermarkets

By Nicholas Robinson

Food firms are set to feel the sting of the worsening road haulage crisis, as industry leaders call for more action to stem the heavy goods vehicle (HGV) driver shortage.

UKIP agriculture spokesman: “Any worker who is here legally at the moment will stay here'

Oxford Farming Conference

UKIP spokesman speaks up for migrant workers

By Michael Stones

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has acknowledged the contribution of migrant workers to the food industry, while its agriculture spokesman revealed how his poultry business relied on a contractor staffed by east European workers.

Sainsbury has teamed up the GLA to beat labour exploitation

Sainsbury agrees gangmaster partnership with GLA

By Michael Stones

Sainsbury has joined forces with the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) in a bid to prevent labour exploitation, in the same week that two men were convicted of exploiting migrant food industry workers in Cambridgeshire.

Audits can be picked apart by prosecutors - pic copyright: iStock, Robyn Mackenzie

Audits not full defence versus food safety damages

By Rod Addy

Regular audits don’t protect food firms at the centre of food safety incidents from facing substantial damages, David Young, Eversheds partner and head of its health and safety team, has warned.

Elliott: 'There are only six local authorities with their own public analysts'

Elliott calls for food analysts to unite to fight fraud

By Rod Addy

Discussions are underway to boost the power of local authority public analysts in a bid to fight food fraud, according to professor Chris Elliott, author of the prominent review into ‘horsegate’.

Fosh: 'strong employer collaboration'

Government ups support for food industry skills strategy

By Rod Addy

The government has increased support for a skills strategy proposed by the National Skills Academy for Food & Drink (NSAFD) that will initially see food science become a priority area for apprenticeships.

Nutrafeed got into difficulties after clinching a contract with Weetabix

Weetabix contract dragged Nutrafeed into administration

By Rod Addy

Food recycler Nutrafeed Ltd was dragged into administration after a contract with Weetabix to handle waste cereal led it into severe financial difficulties, according to an administrators’ report from Duff & Phelps.

Hall: 'We need policies which focus on long-term value'

Report calls for supply chain industry to invest in R&D

By Rod Addy

The UK supply chain is threatened by under-investment in research and development (R&D) and firms must work more closely together to strengthen it, according to an industry report published today (October 20).

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