Warburtons test drives electric truck for London deliveries
Warburtons will start using an 11-tonne electric truck to make deliveries to customers in central London from its Enfield bakery next month.
Archives for August 26, 2010
EFSA set to mass reject 100s of herbal health claims
Hundreds of proposed botanical-health relationships ranging from antioxidant activity to skin health to immunity to gut health will almost certainly be rejected if the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) holds to its current methodologies, according to...
Seabrook unveils plans for crisp factory number two
Bradford-based crisp manufacturer Seabrook is scouting around for a second production facility in the Northampton area after unveiling ambitious plans to more than double sales from £28m to £63m in the next five years.
Sourdough may enable amaranth-based gluten-free bakery
Amaranth-based gluten-free products may be edging towards wider acceptance after German scientists provided key information on preparing amaranth-based sourdoughs.
Samworths: Lincolnshire Sausage PGI will exclude producers accounting for 95% of sales
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.
Co-op and Somerfield ranges to align by end of September
The alignment of Somerfield and Co-operative food ranges will be completed by the end of next month, 17 months after the £1.6bn merger was sealed and at least six months before the Somerfield store fascia disappears from the High Street.
UK cut-backs set up ‘food poisoning time bomb’: CIEH
Cut-backs in food safety and hygiene training may be setting up a ‘food poisoning time bomb’, suggest results of a survey from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH).