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      <news:title><![CDATA[UK’s food trade deficit hits £21BN]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[Popular beer brand withdraws product over exploding cans ]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[What happens when half your welders retire?]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[Hovis distribution drivers pause strike at “eleventh hour”]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[Lessons from the 2026 egg Salmonella outbreak]]></news:title>
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      <image:caption><![CDATA[In 2017, the FSA updated its guidance on the safety of runny eggs, noting that those which carry the Lion mark can be consumed by pregnant people, babies and the elderly.]]></image:caption>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[Diageo Cameronbridge to be brought to a “standstill” as strike dates revealed]]></news:title>
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