Prime minister David Cameron, Sir Paul McCartney and Tim Smith, Tesco’s group technical director and former Food Standards Agency boss, all feature in this collection of quotes about the discovery of horse and pig DNA in beef burgers sold by Tesco, Iceland...
When three working mothers, Donna Tresadern, Kay Shearing and Nikki Da Costa-Smith, struggled to find healthy, convenient and tasty food for children they decided to create their own frozen ready meals range.
Efficiency improvements and successful price negotiations are helping meat firm Cranswick offset the impact of rising feed costs, according to City analysts commenting on its interim results for the six months to September 30.
British poultry processors are missing a trick by paying for disposal of chicken feet, which could be exported to China where retailers such as Tesco are struggling to meet demand.
Uncertainty surrounds the future of 13,000 food manufacturing jobs today (November 19), as Dutch food manufacturing giant Vion announced plans to sell its UK food businesses to concentrate on what it describes as “core markets” in the Netherlands and...
A Waitrose meat buyer has won the coveted 2012 David Black Award for “transforming British pork and pork products into sustainable, high-quality, aspirational food”.
Hull-based food manufacturer Cranswick has delivered a "robust" margin recovery in the first half of the year, according to City analyst Shore Capital.
Schroeder has developed a meat injector with a built-in weighing system to provide continuous measurement and automatic regulation of the injection rate. The new system is now installed in the IMAX IT injector.
Hull-based meat supplier Cranswick has been given a glowing report by analysts at Shore Capital, after they visited its two factories in Milton Keynes.
Traditional poultry meat inspection may not be good enough to protect against threats to food safety such as campylobacter, salmonella and ESBL/AmpC gene-carrying bacteria, warns the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
When catering butcher R Manners & Sons wanted to optimise its production of ready meals and beef and pork products, it invested in an automatic portion cutter, instead of cutting products by hand.
Meat Processor Scotch Premier Meat plans to cut 30 jobs as part of cost-cutting measures at its facility at Inverurie, Scotland, which, the firm claims, will help it promote a high-quality image.
Premier Foods and other dried soup manufacturers face price increases of more than 13% in the cost of meat powders, after an EU rule ordering poultry and pork desinewed meat (DSM) to be relabelled as mechanically separated meat (MSM) comes into force...
Morrisons has acquired full ownership of its Farmers Boy Deeside (FBD) fresh meat facility from former partner Cranswick as the retailer steps up its plan to become the UK’s largest fresh food manufacturer by 2015.
Diets high in red meat reduce life expectancy through an increased risk of cancer and cardio vascular disease, according to the results of a new study from Harvard Medical School.
More than 200 workers at meat processing firm Tulip demonstrated this week (March 13) outside its Tranfood plant in Birkenhead after being locked out by the firm, said Unite the union.
Chickens resistant to Campylobacter – a bacteria that is the biggest cause of food poisoning in the UK – could result from a new £1.3M research project.
Three companies (Marigot, AllinAll Ingredients and Naturis) have joined forces to develop a new brine system that offers a clean-label alternative to using phosphates in poultry.
Supermarket chain Morrisons, the only major multiple retailer to operate its own meat processing factories, has struck a deal to acquire a 9,755m2 meat processing facility in Winsford, Cheshire from Vion UK.
Meat consumption is predicted to rise by nearly 73% and demand for dairy products by 58% in the years up to 2050, according to a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
Investing in a packing line because it offers above average hygiene control sounds, on the face of it, like choosing a new car purely on the basis of its fuel-efficiency. In each case, there will probably be other, more pressing priorities. And the assumption...
Welsh superstar, Shirley Bassey, is singing the praises of Peter’s Pies after the bakery firm joined forces with the Noah’s Ark Appeal to help raise funds for the Children's Hospital for Wales.
The first UK retailer to introduce trayless, leak-proof, printed flow-wraps for all of its whole chickens, Tesco counts the avoidance of pathogens such as campylobacter among the key benefits of the new pack format.
Difficult economic conditions could be driving an increasing number of traders to pass cheaper, imported meat off as Scottish beef in a bid to stretch their profit margins.
Clean-label ingredient developer and supplier Ulrick & Short has developed a range of cost-saving, functional phosphate replacers. The products are designed to improve the overall texture and moistness of meat and poultry.
Specialist meat packing business Hilton Food Group has posted a 10% growth in turnover for the 28 weeks to July 17, despite difficult trading conditions.
