All Government policy articles – Page 117
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Comment & OpinionNo-one will starve on account of food shortages but that’s no reason for government complacency
Politics have taken over from pragmatism amid food and drink industry shortages
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NewsHopes for temporary visas for EU HGV drivers dashed by government
The government has rebuffed numerous calls over the past few months for drivers to be added to the skills shortage occupation list
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat are the sticking points in looming EU fishing talks?
Negotiations for a potential 2022 deal are to begin this autumn
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NewsGovernment failing to act on labour crisis, despite warnings of pig cull
National Pig Association CEO Zoe Davies told The Grocer: “Nothing helpful has so far come back from government”
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Comment & OpinionCan an animal welfare argument jolt the government into tackling the labour crisis?
Farmers and the NPA have warned that culls may soon be necessary unless the Home Office takes action
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NewsApplaws cancels Fold Hill production until cat deaths cause known
Batches of several Fold Hill products were linked to a rise in feline pancytopenia
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NewsFold Hill Foods to restart production of recalled catfood brands
The FSA said that “no causative link between pancytopenia and the recalled catfood products has been established”
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Analysis & FeaturesBrexit border checks: the five areas of most concern
What with the driver shortages, the ‘pingdemic’ and summer holidays, it would be easy to forget that in fewer than 50 days, border controls will begin for food and drink arriving in Great Britain from Europe
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NewsDriver crisis: Neither army nor longer hours will solve it, say hauliers
The temporary relaxation of drivers’ hours that was due to end on Sunday has been extended to October
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PodcastReviving Food To Go - The Convenience Mix podcast
We discuss the surprise announcement that Sainsbury’s has decided to close down its wholesale business as well as the impact of Covid-19
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NewsUber Eats launches calorie count feature for in-app menus
The platform said it had a “large and growing range of healthy options
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Comment & OpinionFood companies benefit from indirect subsidies on unhealthy food. Taxes will put an end to it
Food companies should treat potential new salt and sugar taxes as the end of subsidies they have benefited from for decades, says Dan Crossley, executive director, Food Ethics Council
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Comment & OpinionWill new Covid testing scheme prove any better than what companies already have in place?
Companies are having to grapple with a complex new scheme as Covid cases fall
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Analysis & FeaturesPingdemic: is daily Covid testing the answer to soaring absence rates?
With the Covid ‘pingdemic’ in full swing, ministers announced they were to allow special exemption from quarantine rules for up to 10,000 food workers
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Comment & OpinionBreaking the ‘junk food cycle’: why swift industry intervention is necessary
Initiatives that assume people are low on money, time, and headspace are the only ones with any evidence of working at scale to change diets, says Sarah Hickey of Impact on Urban Health
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NewsDefra tells ‘golden 500’ food companies they can stop self-isolation
Defra told The Grocer the start date for testing would “vary from business to business”
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NewsWine sellers celebrate scrapping of post-Brexit import certification
The UK will axe certain red tape on wine imports in a move it claims will save about £130m a year
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Analysis & FeaturesThe real food system changes we’re likely to see in the wake of the National Food Strategy
Supermarkets have backed Dimbleby’s call for transparent reporting, but there are signs it may put them on a collision course with suppliers
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NewsPingdemic: up to 10,000 food supply chain workers to be exempt from self-isolation rules
However the government has stopped short of including shopworkers
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News‘Pingdemic’ labour shortages: government slammed over ‘shambolic’ response
While supermarkets absence rates are thought to be typically standing at about 10%, they are said to have hit as much as 30% in some pockets of the UK