Inside food & drink manufacturing
Students from the University of Reading have won the UK leg of this year’s Ecotrophelia Awards – the pan-European competition for ecologically inspired innovative new product development (NPD) – in a contest dominated by vegetarian and vegan products.
A new factory dedicated to building robots for food manufacturing roles, promises to boost firms’ productivity, claims its owner.
Fish and seafood processor Young’s Seafood has welcomed action taken by the Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI) to tackle marine pollution, a “hidden threat” to the seafood industry.
Demand for staff has risen to its highest level in 21 months, according to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC), as EU workers are “leaving in their droves”.
Country of origin information for food and drink should be displayed by online retailers, just as it is on supermarket shelves, to help shoppers choose British produce, the National Farmers Union (NFU) claims.
Hung parliament
Politicians have been urged to protect Britain’s £110bn food and farming sector, after Theresa May’s snap general election backfired and resulted in a hung parliament.