All CO2 Shortages articles
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NewsMPs seek government action on fertiliser prices and CO2 shortage worries
The Efra Committee’s warnings come as Russian natural gas exports to Europe fall, prompting further price and supply concerns
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CF Fertilisers plant shutdown set to heap more uncertainty on struggling food producers
The US chemical giant is to close its plant at Ince in Cheshire, though industry experts have played down the risk to CO2 supplies
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Comment & Opinion
CO2 shortage debate highlights the need to tackle food waste
It would be wise to take stock of the resources we waste every day before scratching our heads over shortages, says Jonathan Straight, brand ambassador for Approved Food
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News
Label shortage threatens supply chain disruption across food, medicine and more
As well as food suppliers, Amazon is said to be on high alert over the potential disruption to deliveries
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News
CO2: deal struck with CF Industries to continue gas production
A previous agreement for the chemicals giant to continue production expired on 31 January
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Analysis & Features
CO2 crisis: What’s happening to UK supplies?
There are no immediate signs of another shortage, but the long-term supply situation is far from resolved
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News
Uncertainty over future CO2 gas supplies with just days left of pricing deal
A government-brokered pricing arrangement for major supplier CF to continue production ends on 31 January
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Food inflation hits home as 10,000 grocery prices soar
Six per cent of all supermarket products became more expensive between 27 December and 5 January, according to exclusive Assosia data for the Grocer
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Concerns grow over supply of CO2 gas as CF deal nears end
CF supplies about 60% of the UK’s industrial CO2 gas needs, but a deal to guarantee supply is due to run out at the end of January
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Comment & Opinion
Christmas looks like it’s going to be OK in grocery – but it’s still touch and go
Some turkeys may be Polish, some mince pies may run short, and there will be less choice, but Christmas won’t be the disaster many feared just a few months ago
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News
CO2 crisis: deal agreed to maintain supply into the new year
A temporay government bailout, which led to the restarting of CO2 gas production last month, was due to end on 12 October
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Comment & Opinion
Will the CO2 shortage help burst consumers’ ‘everything, now’ bubble?
Shipping containers and carbon dioxide didn’t used to be conversation starters in the pub, but they are now part of the national discourse
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Comment & Opinion
CO2 crisis: there’s another cliff edge in three weeks’ time
It’s remarkable to think CF Industries could destabilise food supply in a way that neither Covid nor Brexit had thus far managed
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News
Alternative tech ‘can help to avoid future CO2 shortages’
Experts have claimed the current crisis is not necessarily a shortage of CO2, but that better use must be made of the gas already being emitted
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News
Pig sector still struggling with backlog, despite deal to restart CO2 production
National Pig Association CEO Zoe Davies has warned the threat of culling healthy animals on backlogged farms is “still there”
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News
CF Industries to restart CO2 gas production following government agreement
A halt in production last week led to warnings a CO2 gas supply crisis could “dwarf” the one seen in 2018
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Comment & Opinion
The food industry can’t rely on outside help to solve CO2 crisis
It’s becoming clear the UK’s CO2 gas supply chain remains in a parlous state, and very few lessons appear to have been learnt from the last crisis
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News
Almost 100,000 pigs backlogged on farms as CO2 shortages compound impact of labour crisis
National Pig Association CEO Zoe Davies said producers were now having to consider on-farm culling due to the crisis
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Food sector on brink of another CO2 gas crisis amid soaring energy prices
The British Poultry Council warned the latest shortages of the gas could “dwarf” those that almost brought the sector to a halt in 2018
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‘Poultry shortages inevitable’ despite new isolation exemptions
The president of 2 Sisters Food Group Ranjit Singh said the sector was facing a ’food crisis like we’ve never seen before’
