The United Kingdom House of Commons will debate a petition on Nov. 12 urging the government to make supermarkets offer plastic-free packaging for fresh fruit and vegetables.
Pork processors in the UK looking to tap new export markets have set their sights on Taiwan with a delegation visiting this week to take advantage of market opportunities.
Keeping pace with demand for healthier, lower salt recipes for processed meat, one US start-up has developed a vegetable-based ingredient that can be used to create processed meat and proteins with a reduction in sodium of up to 95 percent.
British-based multinational agribusiness Tate & Lyle says it has performed “in line with expectations” after its half-year results show flat profit growth with sales decreasing by 1 percent to £1.38 billion (US$1.81bn).
330,000 tonnes of milk, worth more than £150 million, are wasted in the UK each year according to a new report from WRAP highlighting milk waste across the food chain.
A recent study by the Marine Conversation Society found that 85 percent of 48 retail brands of fish sticks in the United Kingdom are made from seafood that's considered sustainable.
Food and beverage companies could be taxed on plastic packaging that contains less than 30 percent recycled content from April 2022, the UK Chancellor Philip Hammond announced in the 2018 Budget speech last week.
CABI scientists have made the first discovery of the Asian samurai wasp Trissolcus japonicus – a natural enemy that kills the eggs of the the invasive fruit and nut pest brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) – in Europe.
Food and drink group Princes has invested over £750,000 in to the UK’s recycling infrastructure this year by ensuring that all its packaging recycling evidence is sourced solely from UK reprocessors.
Two Herefordshire entrepreneurs from Ross-on-Wye had a vision of making delicious hand-cooked crisps that celebrate the true flavours of Herefordshire county, while at the same time protecting the English countryside with a 100% compostable bag.
Since the UK Government laid out targets to reduce sugar and calories by 20 percent by 2020, manufacturers have had to consider nutritional profiles even more so than ever before.
