Published: Sep 20, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Dairy farmer members of the Co-operative Dairy Group will receive a one pence per litre (ppl) increase on their August 2012 rate.

Published: Sep 20, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) is advising travelers to the Czech Republic to avoid locally produced bootleg spirits following a spate of methanol poisonings the country and over 20 deaths, as one local producer said the crisis had hit his business ha

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

The Food Standards Agency has appointed six new members to the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP). Five members begin their three-year term of membership from September 2012 and the sixth member will commence their term in January 201

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced that its board has agreed the future approach to working with the industry on delivering meat official controls.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Cold atmospheric gas plasma technology in combination with other mild treatments can destroy bacteria in fresh produce, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Institute of Food Research (IFR), UK.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Rod Addy

UK distributor NFT is pumping millions of euros into its operations, having secured a five-year refinancing agreement with HSBC Midlands corporate banking team.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

A few places remain for the Agency’s keynote lecture and Chief Scientist’s annual report launch next week. The event is being held at the Royal Society, London, on the evening of Thursday 27 September 2012, with registration starting from 5.30pm.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: John Wood

A new way of ‘naturally’ extending the shelf life of products without the need for supplementary preservatives or additives is being offered to UK food manufacturers by savoury snacks manufacturer Deli 24.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Mik Stones

Ministerial responsibilities in the newly reshuffled Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have been revealed.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: John Wood

The UK poultry industry has teamed up with the retailer Morrisons to launch a campaign to fight a planned tax on rotisserie chickens.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Laurence Gibbons

Food manufacturers have been told to find “innovative ways of reducing water use”, after a survey by the Foodservice Consultants Society International UK and Ireland (FCSI) revealed 84% of members saw water usage as having the biggest impact on the sector

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Rod Addy

The Atkins brand is making it easier for consumers to get in trim by launching convenient resealable pack formats for its ready to drink cartons.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Rod Addy

UK meat products firm Pork Farms has speeded up production line changeovers through installing Allen Coding Systems' carton coding technology at its factory in Shaftesbury, Dorset.

Published: Sep 18, 2012 By: Mark Astley

The recent UK milk price increases announced by processors should not be considered a recovery milestone, but a well-timed PR opportunity, a European dairy analyst has claimed.

Published: Sep 18, 2012 By: Mark Astley

Müller Dairy UK and Müller-owned Robert Wiseman Dairies have promised a “substantial increase” in the price they pay to their dairy farmer suppliers for milk.

Published: Sep 18, 2012 By: Mike Stones

The British Army has given the nation’s biggest high street baker its marching orders by enlisting Greggs in a trial to supply baked savouries to Germany.

Published: Sep 18, 2012 By: Rick Pendrous

British consumers would accept the use of nanotechnology in the production of food and drink if the benefits were more clearly explained by people they trust, new research has revealed.

Published: Sep 18, 2012 By: Gary Scattergood

Small food and drink firms make a crucial contribution to the £1,000bn driven through local economies by small businesses each year, but it could be far greater if banks loosened their purse strings.

Published: Sep 18, 2012 By: Mike Stones

The Edinburgh-based gluten-free food specialist Genius Foods has struck a deal with French retail chain Carrefour to sell gluten-free croissant, pain au chocolat and other products in Spain.

Published: Sep 18, 2012 By: Nathan Gray+

The beneficial effects attributed to antioxidants such as polyphenols could be reversed when they are used in nano-forms, according to new research.