Inside food & drink manufacturing
Retailers need to be bolder with their own-label ready meals and stop relying on the basics, such as spaghetti Bolognese and lasagne, former food industry rivals Jonny Bingham and David Jones have said.
Raw material costs climbed by £40M for Dairy Crest in the past year, but the UK dairy firm achieved a strong double-digit profit increase and savings of £25M, ahead of expectations.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is about to launch a free online tool aimed at small food manufacturing businesses in the UK, to help guide them through the process of identifying food safety hazards and introducing appropriate production controls.
Vitamin D deficiency in the UK is “not acceptable” and easily avoidable, five of Europe’s leading nutritional scientists have said, after national data suggested 23% of adults received less than their recommended daily intake.