The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced plans to employ up to 25% of Official Vets (OVs) in order to curb shortages and maintain the delivery of official controls in abattoirs.
Up to a third of UK consumers are willing to try lab-grown meat and a quarter would try insects, according to new research by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
Maintaining enough workers to keep businesses viable has been 'the overwhelming concern' for meat wholesalers in 2021, according to Alan McNaughton, president of the Scottish Association of Meat Wholesalers (SAMW).
The end of the Government’s deal with CF Fertilisers to maintain supplies of CO2 gas has created uncertainty among food manufacturers, with concerns of higher prices and sudden shortages.
In the world of detection and inspection, the latest advances in food safety technology have been propelled by a need to not only save space and money, but also larger goals of becoming more sustainable and offering more comprehensive coverage for discovering...
A balance of domestic and export markets was the key to long-term prosperity for the UK meat industry, according to Meat Promotion Wales chair Catherine Smith.
How can food and drink manufacturers offset rising production costs through increased efficiency and better use of resources, including renewable energy? That's the topic of the next Food Manufacture webinar.
A parliamentary committee has challenged Home Office minister Kevin Foster MP to clarify comments he made about visas for pork butchers from overseas, which appear to contradict other experts' claims.
Ivy Farm Technologies, the UK start-up seeking to bring cultivated meat to UK consumers by 2023, has appointed former Barclays investment banker Azamat Kokov as a food technology finance expert.
UK pork, poultry and egg producers are protected from imports from their Australian counterparts by tariffs, although beef producers have weaker privileges, while an animal welfare clause is included in the Aussie-UK FTA.
Home Office minister for safe and legal migration Kevin Foster has been criticised for deflecting the blame for the UK labour crisis and not listening to the struggles with recruitment across the pork and poultry sectors.
