All Government and Regulation articles – Page 31
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Comment & OpinionAlex Salmond knew how to leverage Scotland’s food & drink greatness
Salmond saw he could enlist Scottish food and drink assets in the battle to win Scotland’s independence, says Ian Wright, co-chair of the Food & Drink Export Council
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NewsCharity urges more support for migrant workers in Employment Rights Bill
FLEX said that the newly-announced bill must urgently address immigration restrictions which put migrants with restrictive visas at high risk of exploitation
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WebinarsWebinar to examine how to make post-Brexit border checks work
Register for The Grocer’s free webinar on ’Feeding Britain: How to Make the Post-Brexit Border Checks Work’
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WebinarsWATCH: UPF vs HFSS: Making sense of the new health agenda
Watch experts from Asda, Modern Baker and Vypr for a deep-dive into the fast-evolving health agenda and understand what’s set to shape consumer choices in 2025 and beyond
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InterviewsAsh CEO Deborah Arnott’s 21-year battle with Big Tobacco
Deborah Arnott is stepping down after 21 years. She looks back on her battle with the tobacco lobby… and ahead to the vaping challenge
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Analysis & FeaturesCould EPR spark a new crisis for buyer-supplier relations?
‘Robust’ negotiations over pricing are set to be inflamed further as suppliers reckon with the additional costs generated by looming EPR fees
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NewsEPR: hunt for thousands of ‘freeriders’ trying to piggyback on fees
The announcement of the hunt comes with the deadline for the second set of data for EPR having passed last week
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NewsTesco and Coca-Cola backed bid is frontrunner to get DRS contract
The prominent involvement of Tesco in the steering group leading the bid is being seen as a major coup
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Analysis & FeaturesHow can the food industry clean up our rivers?
The public’s ire over river pollution may be directed at the water companies, but how long before it turns to agricultural businesses, the biggest polluters?
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NewsEUDR delay ‘to cause more deforestation’ as palm oil sector sees land clearing increase
A proposed delay to the EU’s anti-deforestation law could cause deforestation ‘14 times the size of Paris’, claim environmental campaigners
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NewsScores on doors scandal to ‘torpedo’ FSA plans for food safety shake-up
New figures released today by the FSA showed more than 100,000 food premises, many of them supermarkets, were overdue for inspections
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Category ReportThe Welsh farmer uprising: Wales category report 2024
The Welsh government’s Sustainable Farming Scheme triggered widespread uproar from farmers. How can the unrest be quelled?
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Analysis & FeaturesIs genetic crop engineering the key to climate-resilient agriculture?
With backing from Labour, precision bred crops could be on their way to UK farms. But the complex issue divides both the industry and the public
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NewsBreakthrough moment for lab grown meat as government backs fast-track testing
The Food Standards Agency revealed today it had received a £1.6m grant from the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology for a new “sandbox” programme
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NewsBrexit border requirements on EU food imports delayed once more
New safety and security certificates were supposed to be introduced at the end of October as part of the Border Target Operating Model
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Comment & OpinionA delay to EUDR is bad news for farmers and suppliers
A year-long wait on deforestation laws will be no benefit to smallholders, says Leo Bottrill, CEO and founder of MapHubs
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Comment & OpinionHFSS ban puts functional ingredients in the spotlight
Functional ingredients and nutritional additives will be a headline act, says Karsten Smet, CEO at ACI Group
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Analysis & FeaturesWrap’s Sebastian Munden on sustainability’s ‘competitive advantage’
The Grocer’s guest editor and Wrap chair on the ‘competitive advantage’ of sustainability, and ‘unintentional greenwashing’
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NewsSupermarkets stonewalling suppliers over CPI requests, claims adjudicator
New GCA report found more than 14% of suppliers claimed to have had products delisted without reasonable notice in the past year
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NewsHovis set to take on Kingsmill 50/50 with ‘White N’ Fibre’ loaf
The baker has applied to register the name as a trademark with the IPO