Archive of all Food Standards Agency articles – Page 23
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Category Report
Bargain hunt: poultry category report 2018
High-profile controversy has done nothing to dampen shopper appetite for value-for-money protein
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Comment & Opinion
Trust the Tractor? The evidence is not exactly reassuring
Time after time trust in the Red Tractor scheme is being eroded
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Category Report
Sunny side up: Breakfast category report 2018
The breakfast category has bounced back from two years of decline, with shoppers shelling out an additional £10m on the first meal of the day
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Analysis & Features
After a series of breaches, can Red Tractor be trusted again?
Red Tractor CEO Jim Moseley’s bullish call for the government not to “reinvent the assurance wheel”, will no doubt be ringing in his ears this week after the scheme hit the headlines - and not for the first time this year - for all the wrong reasons
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Analysis & Features
Superfoods meet science: is GM on the verge of acceptance?
A raft of new GM and gene-edited products are in development, designed purely with the consumer in mind
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Comment & Opinion
Food safety: how can small companies defend themselves?
Errington Cheese has faced a ‘guilty until proven innocent’ approach, says Joanna Blythman
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News
Listeria alert as frozen veg supplier Greenyard issues recall
The recall is linked to a pan-European outbreak of listeria dating as far back as 2015
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Comment & Opinion
Food safety hearing throws up unexpected bombshell
Lord Rooker seemed to suggest Liam Fox had made some rather controversial comments about the future of food manufacturing post-Brexit
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News
2 Sisters profits fall 77% amid protein division restructure
The poultry giant said volume growth was more than offset by the “negative impact of beef, poultry and fish price inflation”
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News
Aberdeen Angus cattle get 'bulletproof' traceability scheme
The society is hoping up to 90% of its 1,800 members will sign up to the Sire Verified Angus Scheme by the end of the year
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News
Nestlé pledges to improve welfare of chickens
All Nestlé products that use chicken will have to adhere to the requirements laid out by the European Broiler Ask
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News
China lifts ban on British beef imports after two decades
Environment secretary Michael Gove this week hailed the announcement as a ’major step’
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News
Asda slammed for 'shocking' AHDB Pork Watch performance
The National Pig Association said it would seek ‘urgent answers’ on why British pork facings have fallen
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News
City snapshot: 2 Sisters hit by protein price inflation
UK chicken giant 2 Sisters was buoyed by the £200m sale of Goodfellas to Nomad Foods in its third quarter, but underlying profitability collapsed on a £5.8m protein division loss. Plus, Oasis Management steps up campaign against Premier Foods CEO Gavin Darby and all the rest of the latest news from the City.
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News
2 Sisters ditches gas stunning amid CO2 crisis
The poultry giant has temporaility abandoned CO2 stunning in a bid to keep production lines running
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News
Raw milk sales face tighter FSA controls
The FSA board this week agreed to proposals for a ‘staged approach’
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News
Central England Co-op extends food waste scheme to all stores
A pilot in nine Leicester stores delivered enough redistributed food for more than 12,000 meals
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News
FSA trials blockchain for meat inspection audits
The regulator launched a pilot two months ago with IBM
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Analysis & Features
Meat in vegan ready meals: how worrying are claims?
A vegan macaroni meal from Tesco’s Wicked Kitchen range supposedly contained traces of turkey
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News
Calls to test imported eggs as new European fipronil scandal brews
The emergence of a potential new fipronil scandal was “not a surprise” said British Egg Industry Council chairman