Global food manufacturer Mars has expanded its partnership with UN agency the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as part of its bid to “further strengthen food safety”.
Quiche and pie manufacturer Pork Farms Ltd has been fined a total of £800k after two workers lost fingers in incidents at two different Nottingham bakeries.
Shaun Evers, managing director of Stonegate, flags the invisible dangers of refrigeration gas leaks and how advancements in gas detection technologies can help make things safer, with the bonus of improved sustainability and efficiency.
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is no ‘magic bullet’ to ensure food safety and developing the right culture must be the first step, warned global assurance partner LRQA.
The producer of fresh and prepared vegetables has admitted a guilty plea, saying that ‘lessons have been learned’ after one of its employees was caught in a carrot baton machine and choked unconscious.
The director of a dog food manufacturer was given a suspended prison sentence this month (October 2023) after a teenage boy lost his finger on his first day of work.
A Herefordshire-based retail and catering butcher has landed a £8k fine after a worker was ‘permanently disfigured’ when their hand was caught in a grinding machine.
This year’s Food Safety Briefing theme is science and data – with four special guest experts from Mars Global Food Safety Center, the Food Standards Agency, Unibloc, and Imprint Analytics joining us to share their knowledge.
With the EU on the precipice of new Listeria regulations, Bethan Grylls reports on Chilled Food Association’s most recent webinar examining the potential avenues this could take and the repercussions.
Food Manufacture analyses the links between aspartame and cancer, digging into the arguments on both sides and whether this will have any influence over its use in fizzy drinks.
Fresh prepared food manufacturer Bakkavor Fresh Cook Ltd has been fined £130,000 for health and safety failings, after a worker was crushed in machinery at its Lincolnshire factory.
Fish processor Young’s Seafood Ltd has been fined more than £700k for health and safety failings, after a worker lost their thumb and fingers in an accident involving machinery at its Grimsby plant.
Müller UK & Ireland has been ordered to pay more than £66k for health and safety failings after an agency worker suffered severe injuries when their fingers were caught in machinery.
Workplace injuries in the food and drink manufacturing sector were significantly higher than the national average, according to the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE’s) latest figures.
Legal action against food manufacturers blamed for letting their employees get sick from the coronavirus would be difficult to prove, but could lead to serious legal ramifications if upheld in court for the entire industry, law firm Walker Morris has...
Health and safety fines in food manufacturing could soon reach more than £10M for a single offence, after a “seismic shift” in the size of penalties since the beginning of last year, according to DWF partner Dominic Watkins.
