Archive of all Food Standards Agency articles – Page 24
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Comment & OpinionHow BRC Issue 8 seeks to encourage a culture of food safety
As part of new food safety guidance, manufacturers will be required to show they are creating a safety-conscious culture, explains Derek Watson of the University of Sunderland
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Category ReportBargain 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 & OpinionTrust 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 ReportSunny 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 & FeaturesAfter 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 & FeaturesSuperfoods 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 & OpinionFood safety: how can small companies defend themselves?
Errington Cheese has faced a ‘guilty until proven innocent’ approach, says Joanna Blythman
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NewsListeria 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 & OpinionFood 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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News2 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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NewsAberdeen 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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NewsNestlé 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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NewsChina 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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NewsAsda 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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NewsCity 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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News2 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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NewsRaw milk sales face tighter FSA controls
The FSA board this week agreed to proposals for a ‘staged approach’
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NewsCentral 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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NewsFSA trials blockchain for meat inspection audits
The regulator launched a pilot two months ago with IBM
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Analysis & FeaturesMeat in vegan ready meals: how worrying are claims?
A vegan macaroni meal from Tesco’s Wicked Kitchen range supposedly contained traces of turkey