With many smaller abattoirs forced to close, is it time for the meat inspection process in the UK to change in support of independents – and what is the government already doing to help?
Poultry processor Avara Foods is to extend its carbon footprint reporting to include more of its agricultural supply chain as it works towards its commitment to build a complete footprint of its entire farming base by 2025.
Dawn Meats is to sell its share of French beef processor Elivia to majority shareholder Terrena, following a difference in vision for the future of the business.
Lord Newborough of Rhug Estate in North Wales has been a prominent organic advocate since the late 1990s. Beyond the estate’s organic livestock enterprises and expansive farm shop, the business has continuously diversified its routes to market to deliver...
A team of five students from the University of Nottingham have been announced the winners of Ecotrophelia UK, taking home a grand prize of £2,000 and the opportunity to represent the UK in the nationals in Europe.
Poultry processor Avara Foods has announced proposals to close its Abergavenny factory in Autumn 2023, placing 400 roles at the site at the risk of redundancy.
This year’s Butcher’s Shop awards ceremony was awash with innovation, community spirit and high-quality produce as it celebrated independent UK butchery, with McCaskie’s Butchers & Café taking home the grand prize.
Abattoirs are essential or important to the success of food firms and their availability, or lack thereof, plays a major part in more than half of businesses’ future plans, according to new research by the Sustainable Food Trust and National Craft Butchers.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced plans to work closer with industry to tackle criminal activity in the wake of a series of food fraud incidents across the UK.
From the new faces of the industry to the educators introducing them into the world of food and drink, we talk apprenticeships in episode three of the Food Manufacture Podcast.
At last week’s FoodEx Manufacturing Solutions, Food Manufacture sought the expertise of a range of companies and individuals to find out what they considered to be the biggest opportunity in food and drink.
The Green Offices have already helped more than 4,800 properties, with the new facilities aiming to cast its service net wider and increase environmental services among cattlemen.
Experts of sausages, burgers and food forming take a look back (and forwards), as they examine what’s changed and how new technology is influencing the sector with Food Manufacture’s editor.
The head of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee has called on the Government to help exporters regain access to the Chinese pork market.
With an increasing amount of beef coming from the dairy herd, Boomer Birch, Beef Programme Manager at Cogent Breeding explains how insightful data can drive consistent improvements and profitability throughout the dairy-cross-beef supply chain.
Sleaford Quality Foods, HCC and Cawston Press have all announced senior appointments, featured in this run-down of people on the move in food and drink.
A prolific global study that claimed that eating even small amounts of red meat harms health is ‘fatally flawed’, according to peer-reviewed scientific journal Animal Frontiers.
Cherrytree Bakery, Food Cloud and The Scottish Association of Meat Wholesalers all announced senior appointments this week, covered here in this round up of food and drink industry appointments.
Scotbeef has revealed plans to make more than half of its Wolverhampton-based members of staff redundant, after losing a major contract with a high-street supermarket.
The UK joining the Trans-Pacific trade bloc would be another nail in the coffin for animal welfare, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).
The meaning of sustainability has evolved to encompass a whole host of other focuses. Do we need to untangle these once separate issues, or are we all responsible in delivering to this new meaning of sustainability?
An investigation has been launched into industrial-scale country of origin fraud in the pork supply chain, with claims of rotten meat being supplied to care homes and hospitals.
Following a panel discussion around ways food and drink companies can reduce their food waste and increase efficiency, our editor summarises some key talking points and our speakers come back together to answer a few more of your questions…
The Government’s Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act has raised serious concerns over animal welfare from the Royal Society for the Protection and Safety of Animals (RSPCA).
Bethan Grylls summarises the key takeaways from our series of fireside chats presented earlier this week, sponsored by RSSL, as five food and drink leaders lend their expertise on maintaining and working towards a more secure, safer food and drink system....
Episode four finds Bethan Grylls in Leicester where she hears from cooperative-run cheese manufacturer, Long Clawson Dairy and one of its affiliated farmers, Paul Eggleston, on the link between sustainability and food security.
In this third instalment of Food Manufacture's investigation into UK food security, sponsored by RSSL, Bethan Grylls meets with Mike Wijnberg, Group Technical Director for Pilgrim's Pride Ltd., to get the food manufacture's perspective.
A new campaign to help protect farms from lead poisoning and prevent it from entering the food chain has been launched by Food Standards Scotland (FSS).
From finance director to head of one of the largest poultry processing sites in the UK, Gurpa Singh speaks about his time at 2 Sisters Scunthorpe, the impact of COVID and Brexit and the turnaround of the business he helped bring about.
Meat businesses have been urged to contribute to Meat Business Women’s gender equality report as part of international research to track how many women are working in the global meat sector.
NFU president says an “urgent review” of the ETII is needed to avoid essential and vulnerable food producing sectors facing “a cliff edge” when the Energy Bill Relief Scheme ends later this month.
