A new generation of multilayer coextruded bags is available from Cryovac to pack hard and very hard product segments in fresh red meat, cheese and smoked and processed meats.
Virgin coconut meat, a Star Wars-inspired cookie kit and a range of ‘natural’ products all feature in our collection of the latest food and drink innovations.
The expansion of Quality Pork Limited’s (QPL’s) Brechin abattoir is set to be completed towards the end of this year, following a £2.7M investment by the Scottish government.
More than four fifths of consumers still want supermarkets to stock a high level of British pork despite a glut of cheaper European imports, according to research.
Environment secretary Liz Truss will be travelling to China in December with the aim of reducing barriers to UK pig exports to the world’s most populace nation as its demand for protein rises.
Demand for healthy food and drink will increase, with low sodium options helping to drive new product development (NPD), according to Carlos Diaz, food director at Food Innovation Solutions (FIS).
"Pleasing progress" with its newly opened pastry facility and strong pork prospects bode well for Cranswick’s future as it celebrates a successful third financial quarter (Q3), according to one analyst.
Environment secretary Owen Paterson is expected to announce the appointment of a full-time agricultural expert in Beijing early in the New Year to assist with growing UK food exports to China.
Pig producers have called on government for more support to assist growing exports to China. They also want it to resist mounting calls to lift the pig swill ban, fearing this could leave the sector open to exotic new diseases.
Supermarkets have boosted their purchases of British-farmed pork, ham and sausages since the horsemeat scandal, reveals new research from the English pig industry levy board BPEX.
Pork processor Cranswick’s update on first half trading, released today (October 7), revealed “strong top line performance” but represented a profit warning, said City analysts Investec and N+1 Singer.
Pork processor Tulip UK has relaunched its foodservice division in a move designed to double its current sales of about £130M in this sector over the next five years.
Meat stabilising specialist Hydrosol presented its new ideas for the economical manufacture of cooked cured meats, minced meat and sausage products at last month's IFFA show in Frankfurt.
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has developed its Arcon functional soya concentrates to optimise cost savings and boost the appeal of dried fermented sausages
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”.
Britain’s major food organisations have pledged to government not to sell pork and pork products from illegal pig farms when the European partial stalls ban is introduced on January 1, 2013.
Meat ingredients specialist BHJ UK Protein Foods has introduced its first highly functional, natural pork protein for use in injected cooked and cured pork products.
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.
Vion has confirmed its Sheffield sausage processing plant is to close, with the company's sausage facilities consolidated one site in Broxburn, Scotland.
City analysts have hailed Cranswick as a “class act”, but say tough economic times have led them to shave the firm's 2011/12 pre-tax profit estimates by six per-cent to £47m.
Cumberland sausage producers believe there may be an opportunity to get better prices now that the European Union (EU) has given official recognition to their products.
Research is underway to develop lower cost and greener equipment that can cool water-cooked meat joints such as hams safely and rapidly, without compromising flavour and texture.
In its efforts to boost revenues, the meat industry is exploring as many routes to market as possible – and kit suppliers are ready to help out, as Rod Addy finds out
All the leading supermarkets, 13 caterers (including McDonald’s), 14 processors/suppliers and eight branded food manufacturers have now signed up to a voluntary code of practice on country of origin labelling (COOL) on pork and pork products.
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