By Lorraine Mullaney John West’s innovation team has been working on a makeover to broaden the appeal of the firm’s canned mackerel and sardine products among young and lapsed consumers.
The market for game continues to grow, and is now worth £75M, according to the latest report from Mintel. Sales for 2010 are projected to increase by a further 6.7% to reach £80M.
A lower-cost, risk-based meat plant inspection regime could become a reality much sooner than previously thought, following the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) strong lobbying behind the scenes in mainland Europe.
Good traceability systems helped prepared foods giant Bakkavör avoid a potentially costly recall earlier this year, when it experienced a problem with contaminated meat marinades supplied to other processors, according to the company’s group food safety...
All the leading supermarkets, 13 caterers (including McDonald’s), 14 processors/suppliers and eight branded food manufacturers have now signed up to a voluntary code of practice on country of origin labelling (COOL) on pork and pork products.
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is aiming to draw up a new voluntary code of practice on country of origin labelling (COOL) by the end of November.
A Scottish MEP who represented the EU Parliament at a conference in The Faroe Islands to resolve the ongoing ‘Mackerel war’ has hailed talks as "constructive", ahead of further meetings between key stakeholders in the dispute.
Leading UK turkey producer Cranberry Foods has denied claims by the union Unite that it breached an industry charter safeguarding workers’ unionisation rights.
Next week’s strike at Vion’s Llangefni chicken processing plant would be illegal if changes to labour laws proposed by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) were to make it onto the statute books.
The Scottish Pelagic Fisherman’s Association (SPFA) says it pulled out of a summit to discuss the current ‘mackerel wars’ because it feared legitimising overfishing by Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) has been too hasty in its call for action to address broiler chicken welfare, according to the British Poultry Council (BPC).
A complete solution for the weighing and packing of salmon lardons has been supplied by Ishida Europe to smoked fish specialist Meralliance based in France, enabling the company to reduce product giveaway while enhancing pack presentation in retail outlets....
Dawnfresh Seafoods has selected the Mainsaver computerised maintenance management system (CMMS) from UK distributor Spidex Software to manage engineering maintenance activities at its main production site in Uddingston, Lanarkshire.
One of Europe's biggest smoked salmon producers is finding that it pays to recycle.Farne Salmon and Trout, which is located in the Scottish Borders,...
Nine new export licences for UK beef could help home producers survive tough economic times, according to EBLEX, the UK trade organisation for beef producers.
The Soil Association and other industry bodies are seeking to indefinitely delay an EU regulation that would ban the use of nitrates and nitrites in organic cured meats from 2011, and potentially ruin some producers.
Members of the Unite union at Vion’s chicken processing plant in Llangefni will meet next Wednesday (September 8) to decide whether to take industrial action over pay after the results of a ballot were announced this week.
If overfishing by Icelandic and Faroese fishing boats in the Northeast Atlantic continues, then all Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified mackerel fisheries will lose their accreditation by January 2012, according to a spokesman for the body.
If a protected geographical indication (PGI) application for Lincolnshire Sausages is not derailed, producers accounting for more than 95% of sales will be excluded from the market, a leading manufacturer has claimed.
Bosses at meat and poultry giant Vion should find out on September 1 whether staff at its chicken processing plant in Llangefni plan to take strike action over pay.
Ecclefechan Tart, shortbread, Scottish wild venison, Ayrshire bacon and several regional preserves and speciality cheeses are all prime candidates for EU protected name status, according to a new report.
The Scottish Pelagic Fisherman’s Association (SFPA) claims that Icelandic and Faroese government decisions over mackerel fishing quotas for 2010 are “insane”, and could raise prices for food producers, as well as putting Scotland’s Marine Stewardship...
Former Holland’s Pies md Neil Court-Johnston is still out of the business almost three months after being suspended in the wake of allegations that he had talked with third parties regarding a management buyout without the consent of company bosses.
Growing demand for meat with a clear provenance was one driver behind a multi-million pound investment programme by Vion to expand its processing operations in Scotland and create 250 new jobs.
Some slaughter houses and meat cutting plants that are in breach of food safety controls and present potential hygiene hazards are still operating – despite the refusal or withdrawal of approval by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) – because of a loophole...
Britain’s meat processors are missing out on lucrative overseas demand for offal, it has emerged. This is particularly the case with tripe (large stomach lining) – and other so-called ‘fifth quarter’ by-products of carcass ‘deconstruction’.
The Findus Group has called upon politicians to “educate themselves” on fishing issues ahead of proposed changes to the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in 2011.
Recent announcements about the future of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) dealt with the handover of country of origin labelling (COOL) to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
Retailers are behind a core part of the Food Standards Agency's (FSA's) latest five-year strategy of targeting the UK's biggest source of foodborne illness. They have come up with a plan to work with their suppliers to substantially reduce...
A £10m extension to increase production capacity at Moy Park’s Ashbourne poultry processing site by 25% is due for completion this autumn, FoodManufacture.co.uk understands.
Lobbying to prevent the extension of country of origin labelling (COOL) to all meat and poultry products - even when used as minor ingredients in complex processed foods - has stepped up a gear as major food manufacturers have continued to question its...
UK producers of organic bacon and cured meat products look set to be hit by a proposed EU ban on the use of sodium nitrite and potassium nitrate in organic foods. These preservatives are essential to traditional UK bacon.
