Inside food & drink manufacturing
Brexit and the 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”.
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).
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.
Britain’s largest trout producer Dawnfresh Seafoods has sold its frozen scampi business, including stocks, to Whitby Seafoods for an undisclosed sum.
United Biscuits has restarted production of McVitie’s Gold biscuit bars at its Carlisle factory after the site was devastated by floods.
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.
French cheese has been recalled due to contamination with potentially deadly food poisoning bug Listeria monocytogenes (Lm).
Food and drink financial results, criticism of beverage manufacturers and jobs lead the week’s top food and drink manufacturing headlines.
Protein from plants and health-enhancing fat are the two leading food trends of 2016, according to a new consumer insights report by Canadean.