All Meat articles – Page 151
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Asda stumbles in chilled fish as rivals surge ahead
Asda is the only one of the big four retailers to have shown a year-on-year decline in sales of chilled fish over the past year, according to data from Kantar Worldpanel. Value sales of chilled fish at Asda have fallen 0.3% and volumes...
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Second chance for Mattessons meats
Kerry Foods is relaunching Mattessons cooked sliced meats after pulling the range last year because it "wasn't working hard enough."The range, which hits shelves on Monday, will include cooked ham, crumbed ham, honey roast ham (rsp:...
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Peter’s Premier Pies signs 12 more clubs
Pasty and pie-maker Peter's Foods has signed 12 new business partnerships with professional football and rugby clubs across the UK.The stadium contracts, which include Premiership clubs Birmingham City and West Ham United, and rugby...
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Study probes need for a higher-welfare label
A new label for 'higher-welfare' chicken could be on the cards after a poultry industry group commissioned research into whether a new term needs to be created for broilers that fall in between baseline industry standards and organic or...
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Bpex seeks the stars of sausages
Bpex has kicked off its search for the country's 'star sausage' the winner of which will be announced at British Sausage Week on 1-7 November.Retailers, suppliers and manufacturers can nominate up to two 'star' sausages per...
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Novelli cured meats aimed at multiples
Novelli is launching a branded range of cured meat snacks this month.Novelli's Nibbles are miniature versions of saucisson a cured French sausage made from ground pork which will be sold in 90g wooden baskets in three variants: cumin,...
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Producers urge Defra to close clone ID loophole
The National Beef Association is calling for a new code to be added to cattle documentation to ensure cloned animals and their offspring can be identified and traced easily. In the wake of news that 'cloned meat' had entered the UK...
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Nocton lets out its cows following public pressure
Nocton Dairies has bowed to public pressure over its plans to establish a dairy in which most cows would be kept indoors by deciding to allow the majority of cows to graze. The original plan for Nocton Dairies' 8,100-cow herd in...
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Ginsters Balti chicken spices up pasty range
Ginsters is replacing its Ham, Leek & Cheese Cornish pasty with a Chicken Balti variant, and is pledging to keep the nation's love of spicy food in mind for future launches. The Chicken Balti Pasty (rsp: £1.99), which hits shelves...
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RSPCA flagged up cloned meat risks back in 2008
The RSPCA warned Defra of the danger of 'cloned meat' entering the UK food chain as early as March 2008, The Grocer can exclusively reveal. Last week, the Food Standards Agency confirmed meat from the offspring of a cloned animal had...
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How can the industry see off another attack of the clones?
Given Defra was warned in 2008 about products derived from cloned animals, why was action not taken? And what happens now, asks Richard Ford
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Suppliers say cloning is not a food safety issue
The meat industry has hit back at suggestions that the discovery of meat from a cloned animal in the UK could spiral into a crisis of similar magnitude to BSE in the 1990s.Industry representatives said it was vital to make it clear to...
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Billingsgate porters blast licence repeal
Porters at Billingsgate fish market are up in arms over plans to overhaul a local bylaw that they claim threatens to undermine the professional standing of their trade. The City of London Corporation is proposing to repeal a bylaw from...
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: The 12.5p pint of milk will have a major impact on the trade
I suppose it’s not surprising Andrew Thornton’s squirrel-steak-selling Budgens store in Crouch End is receiving so much publicity right now.
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More Xtreme flavours for P&G Pringles
P&G is bringing out two new Pringles flavours under its Xtreme banner Hot Paprika & Smoky Bacon and Spicy Sour Cream & Onion. The new flavours will roll out on 1 August under the Pringles Xtreme brand, which was launched...
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Birds Eye sizes up market for natural fish products
Birds Eye is investigating the market potential for a new range of natural fish and seafood products in the UK, less than a month after news emerged that it had called time on its Naked & Natural fish range. The frozen food...
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Focus On Lunchbox: Hand-held pastry products
Not so long ago, the pastries market was looking limp and tired, with little to offer shoppers besides the same old traditional sausage rolls or pork pies.
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Linden Foods profits from efficiencies
Profits at Northern Irish meat processor Linden Foods are up 17% thanks partly to increased efficiencies and a strategy of targeting the top end of retail and foodservice. Pre-tax profit rose 17% to £2m for the year to 30 September 2009...
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Seafish fights on in the Supreme Court
Seafish is now set for a Supreme Court showdown in its battle to retain its levy on imported fish. The Sea Fish Industry Authority and Defra last year won a High Court case against British Seafood, which challenged the levy as illegal....
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Lamb’s Navy Rum promo supports RNLI
Lamb's Navy Rum has joined forces with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) for the first time in an on-pack promotion that offers a two-week cruise holiday. Nearly 100,000 bottles of the Halewood rum are being rolled into the...