The UK is set to benefit from a £34M export deal with the Philippines, which will see beef shipped to the country for the first time in more than 20 years.
The UK is a step closer to unlocking a new multi-million pound US market for British beef and lamb, after the US agreed to review restrictions on red meat imports.
US food safety inspectors will audit Scottish beef production following the lifting of a BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) related ban, according to Scottish food secretary Richard Lochhead.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has welcomed the successful prosecution of the Cornwall-based slaughter house H R Jasper & Son Ltd for breaching regulations introduced to control the risks from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
Cleveland Meat Company faces £27,000 in fines and legal costs after being found guilty of breaching food safety rules limiting the risk of consumers’ exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
Primary meat processors have called for the government to change what they consider to be “outdated regulations from the BSE era”, which apply to sheep but were originally intended to prevent people contracting diseases associated with “mad cows”.
British beef and lamb will return to Russian dinner plates after authorities there finally said yes to exports after agreeing to lift their 16-year ban.
Scotch Beef, recently named as Great Britain’s biggest Scottish food and drink brand, this week received nearly £600,000 to help it boost exports to EU countries.
The Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) Board has rejected European Commission (EC) proposals to relax the ban on feeding animal protein to pigs, poultry and fish. The ban was introduced as a food safety control measure following the BSE crisis in cattle.
Britain’s meat processors are missing out on lucrative overseas demand for offal, it has emerged. This is particularly the case with tripe (large stomach lining) – and other so-called ‘fifth quarter’ by-products of carcass ‘deconstruction’.
Former Food Standards Agency (FSA) chairman Sir John Krebs has urged the government to be upfront with the public, claiming that no food should ever...
