Listeria fears force French cheese recall
French cheese has been recalled due to contamination with potentially deadly food poisoning bug Listeria monocytogenes (Lm).
Archives for January 15, 2016
Financial results, jobs and dairy lead headlines
Food and drink financial results, criticism of beverage manufacturers and jobs lead the week’s top food and drink manufacturing headlines.
Plant protein and health-enhancing fat lead 2016 food trends
Protein from plants and health-enhancing fat are the two leading food trends of 2016, according to a new consumer insights report by Canadean.
‘Modern day slavery’: traffickers jailed for labour exploitation
Two human traffickers have been jailed for three and a half years each for forcing a pair of food factory workers to endure squalid conditions and hunger with almost no pay.
Dawnfresh Seafoods sells frozen scampi business
Britain’s largest trout producer Dawnfresh Seafoods has sold its frozen scampi business, including stocks, to Whitby Seafoods for an undisclosed sum.
Flood-hit factory restarts production line
United Biscuits has restarted production of McVitie’s Gold biscuit bars at its Carlisle factory after the site was devastated by floods.
Wyke Farms grows turnover but profits fall
Wyke Farms has reported a rise in turnover but a pre-tax loss for its full-year results that was characterised by a near 50% fall in the value of EU dairy commodities.
Food manufacturers should adopt ‘activity equivalent’ calorie labels
Food and drink manufacturers should adopt ‘activity equivalent’ calorie labelling on their products which show how much activity is needed to burn off the calories in them, according to the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH).
Brexit and the food industry
Brexit: four key questions for the UK food industry
Answering four key questions will help the UK food and drink industry decide whether or not to vote in favour of quitting the EU, in a referendum, which chancellor George Osborne has described as “a once in a life-time opportunity”.