Published: Oct 08, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Scottish finance secretary John Swinney has pledged that the taskforce dedicated to saving jobs at Hall's of Broxburn will fight on, despite the announcement (October 5) of a phased closure of the meat plant.

Published: Oct 08, 2012 By: Lorraine Mullaney

A 31-year-old woman ate part of “a hairy creature that appeared to be a dead rodent” in a sandwich she bought in Tesco.

Published: Oct 08, 2012 By: Laurence Gibbons

It is "inevitable" that the Department of Health (DoH) will recommend a single hybrid front-of-pack labelling system that combines guideline daily amounts (GDAs) and traffic light labelling, which will serve a massive blow to the industry.

Published: Oct 08, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Kent Police have arrested two people in a dawn raid last Friday (October 5), after allegations that Lithuanian men working in the food industry were held in slave-like conditions.

Published: Oct 08, 2012 By: Lorraine Mullaney

After 27 years of service, a former bomb disposal expert has left the British Army to launch his own artisan bakery.

Published: Oct 08, 2012 By: Kacey Culliney

United Biscuits has dismissed rumors that former Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy is heading a bid to buy its KP Snacks arm but confirmed to BakeryandSnacks.com that an eventual market sale is inevitable.

Published: Oct 06, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

JFC Plastics has been ordered to pay £240,000 (€298,390) in fines and costs after being prosecuted following the death of a worker at one of its UK recycling facilities.

Published: Oct 06, 2012 By: Caroline Scott-Thomas

The UK Advertising Standards Authority has partially upheld a complaint against Britvic for the advertising of its Club Orange soft drink, which features scantily clad women inviting men to admire their “bits”.

Published: Oct 06, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

UK whisky and spirit retailer Master of Malt is tapping the navy strength gin trend with a new high quality Bathtub Gin bottled at 57%, made from pot-still spirit with hand-crushed botanicals.

Published: Oct 05, 2012 By: Foodmate team

In the two years since the introduction of the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) in Wales, hygiene standards in food businesses are improving.

Published: Oct 05, 2012 By: Foodmate team

The Advisory Committee on Animal Feedingstuffs' open meeting in Aviation House, London gave stakeholders an opportunity to observe the committee at work and to ask questions.

Published: Oct 05, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

After 'huge and unsuccessful efforts' to re-enter India after it made the strategic mistake of exiting the market in 2002, Diageo's near deal with United Spirits would win it a reprieve, according to a top alcoholic drinks analyst.

Published: Oct 05, 2012 By: Kacey Culliney

Production of Annabel Karmel snack bars has ceased and a recall has been issued in the UK and Republic of Ireland following three consumer complaints of insect contamination.

Published: Oct 04, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

A Yorkshire firm that supplies local food and drink made by small manufacturers to the major supermarkets is expanding to cover the whole of northern England.

Published: Oct 04, 2012 By: Mark Astley

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has dismissed a complaint that the website for Unilever-owned Walls Ice Cream gave a misleading nutritional “impression” of its ice cream products.

Published: Oct 03, 2012 By: Lorraine Mullaney

Adams Foods is planning to expand its cheese manufacturing centre in the UK and create 50 jobs.

Published: Oct 03, 2012 By: Gary Scattergood

Skills, research and development (R&D) and access to funding need to be combined into a ‘proper agri-food strategy’ in order to feed people in Britain and abroad in the years to come.

Published: Oct 03, 2012 By: Laurence Gibbons

Coca-Cola Enterprises has revealed it succeeded in the “bold ambition” set out before the London 2012 Olympic games to collect and recycle every left over product put onto the Olympic Park.

Published: Oct 03, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

A UK ice cream manufacturer has been fined £10,000 (€12,500) after a worker had his forearm broken when it got caught in a conveyor belt.

Published: Oct 03, 2012 By: Oliver Nieburg+

Kraft-owned Cadbury has obtained its UK trademark for a shade of the color purple following a UK High Court case, although for a narrower range of goods than for which it originally applied.