Inside food & drink manufacturing
Many serious accidents involving forklift trucks in food and drink manufacture could be avoided by better factory layout, which segregates pedestrians from trucks, together with better driver training, it has emerged.
Scottish red meat will be stocked on retail shelves across Sweden as part of a new deal between the country’s leading grocer and Quality Meat Scotland (QMS).
Tesco is remaining tight lipped about widespread media reports that Britain’s biggest retailer is planning to cut up to 10,000 jobs in a bid to revive its flagging fortunes.
Baronie UK has saved 236 jobs at Ashbury Chocolates, the own-label and branded confectionery manufacturer based in Corby, Northamptonshire, after buying the company out of administration.
Researchers at Kingston University in London have developed an analytical technique which reveals emerging trends, such as particular food categories and countries, associated with high levels of food safety incidents.
Up to 150 jobs could be created at Fleetwood Fish Park in Lancashire after prime minister David Cameron announced it had won £2.5M worth of funding from the Regional Growth Fund.
The director of a Shropshire dairy farm has been prosecuted after he failed to protect both himself and others while working at height.
Food manufacturers and retailers need leadership from an EU level, less “silly legislation” and more data sharing in order to tackle food waste.
A project aiming to boost the volumes of packaging films recycled in the UK will encourage simpler (but not lower-performing) structures, help drive the development of barrier coatings and adhesives and seek to establish the use of machine-readable marks...
Camden Town Brewery is pitching for £1.4M worth of funding to help build a larger brewery to boost production of its Camden lagers and it expects to create more than 100 jobs.
Almond Contamination
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is probing the presence of unlabelled almonds in three food products recalled since the end of last month.
Which? has named and shamed the local councils with the poorest food safety enforcement records for the foodservice sector, with London not doing so well.