Inside food & drink manufacturing
Meat hygiene workers who carried out work for the Food Standards Agency will protest outside the organisation’s headquarters this afternoon after its poor handling of a contract resulted in £500,000 of unpaid wages, Unison has claimed.
A total of 50 jobs are facing the axe at Nestlé and Dairy Crest as consultation processes continue at two of the firms’ factories in Scotland and Somerset.
The financial health of the food manufacturing sector is being hit by the government’s commitment to renewable energy, leaving some firms facing the threat of insolvency, according to industry experts.
A report from consumer watchdog Which? revealing that one-in-five supermarket chickens was contaminated with campylobacter has been welcomed by the UK poultry industry.
Lack of investment from risk-adverse bankers is threatening food and drink manufacturers’ ability to spearhead the export-led economic recovery long predicted by government ministers.