Inside food & drink manufacturing
Food and drink industry leaders have slammed government proposals to ditch food technology at A level, claiming it could seriously damage the sector, while Twitter erupted in a storm of support to keep the qualification.
Food waste reduction by manufacturers and households needs to be the focus of attention since they are the biggest culprits, rather than supermarkets, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) director of food policy Andrew Opie has argued.
Dairy crisis
Morrisons is set to meet with farming unions today (August 11), following widespread dairy protests and another milk price cut last week.
A knowledge exchange project operated by a university and a further education college has added more than £80M to the turnover of Welsh small- and medium-sized food businesses (SMEs) since its formation in 2009.