Published: May 21, 2012 By: Carina Perkins

Extensive, grass-fed cattle systems are more environmentally friendly than intensive, grain-based systems, according to a new study from the UK National Trust (NT).

Published: May 21, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

Milk Link CEO Neil Kennedy says market conditions for the next year will likely remain challenging with dairy commodity returns ‘sharply down’ in comparison with historical prices in the short term.

Published: May 21, 2012 By: Freddie Dawson

The plans by Dutch-owned bakery ingredients group CSM to sell parts of its European and American bakery supplies business puts far more jobs at risk than the 400 previously reported, a union official has told FoodManufacture.co.uk.

Published: May 21, 2012 By: Oliver Nieburg

General Mills sees great potential for its snacks and cereals segments outside North America as population growth in emerging markets looks set to soar.

Published: May 21, 2012

Lab tests carried out by researchers at Bournemouth University (BU) have shown UK carp, bream and roach are all susceptible to infection by the deadly parasite Sphaerothecum destruens, better known as the Rosette Agent.

Published: May 21, 2012

The UK has entered into a £50m trade deal to export pork to China, the largest market for pig meat globally, as a part of its effort to increase trade for British food and farming businesses.

Published: May 18, 2012 By: Melodie Michel

Scottish industry association Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) is looking to promote the Scotch Beef brand in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), now that the UK has received export certification from the Middle Eastern country.

Published: May 18, 2012

Drinking two to three cups of coffee a day may reduce the risk of dying by as much as 10%, according to a study from the National Cancer Institute that was published on-line in the May 16 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Published: May 18, 2012

Taxes on unhealthy ‘food and drinks’ would need to be at least 20 per cent to have a significant effect on diet-related conditions such as obesity and heart disease, according to a new report by UK academic experts

Published: May 18, 2012

The Food Standards Agency’s shellfish monitoring programme has successfully completed a move away from tests using mice for the detection of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) and lipophilic toxins in commercially harvested shellfish.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Own-label, fresh prepared foods firm Bakkavör is to launch an ethnic food range “very soon”, according to the management statement accompanying its results for the quarter ended March 31.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Spring rain dampened on Greggs’ financial results, with like-for-like sales down 1.8% in the 19 weeks to May 12 2012.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Food manufacturers have rejected claims that migrant workers suffer abuse in the food manufacturing sector.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Freddie Dawson

Whitehall plans for a single front-of-pack nutritional labelling scheme could be torpedoed by the devolved governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Rod Addy

C&C Group has posted annual profit growth in its global alcoholic drinks business, driven by robust growth in cider.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

An award-winning UK winery pulled up by regulators for illegally calling a wine it made using Argentinian grapes ‘wine’ under EU law says that current labelling rules are hopelessly out of step with consumer needs.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Rory Harrington

Tamar Labels said its takeover of self-adhesive label producer Labelit will open up new food and beverage market opportunities in Europe.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Nathan Gray,

In order to have any effect on population health, fat taxes must raise food prices by 20% and should be combined with subsidies on healthy foods, say UK-based experts. However industry leaders have branded the calls as ‘irresponsible.’

Published: May 17, 2012

If foodservice operators want to keep up with demand during the London summer Olympics and avoid costly delays, what they should do is switch to frozen food, says the British Frozen Food Federation (BFFF).

Published: May 17, 2012

Ideal Foods, Liskeard, Cornweall, UK-based supplier of seafood products, has won a major contract with one of the largest supermarket chains in the Philippines.