All Meat articles – Page 189
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Court-Johnston returns as commercial director
Neil Court-Johnston is returning to Northern Foods as commercial director of ready meals after its recent sale of Pork Farms to Vision Capital. Court-Johnston first joined Northern Foods as group customer director in March 2005 after...
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New Zealand plans lamb super co-op
New Zealand lamb producers are considering forming a 'super co-op' to drive up prices in the $2.2bn per year export market.Agriculture minister Jim Anderton said the government would help the industry get round anti-monopoly legislation....
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'Farmers will go under if incomes don't rise'
The NFU has admitted it is struggling to communicate the challenges faced by farmers to meat processors and retailers.After more than two years of it trying to explain the impact of CAP reform, chief livestock adviser Peter King said...
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FSA to shame stores for mislabelling fish
Food fraud is under the spotlight again as the FSA prepares to name and shame retailers that sell farmed fish as wild.In a report due in the next ten days, the FSA will identify sea bass, sea bream and salmon as having been mislabelled....
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Britain rules the roost in salmonella testing
Poultry bosses have hailed the UK's top results in a Europe-wide survey of salmonella levels in broiler hens.In tests on every commercial British holding last year, only one was infected with either of the two most common forms of...
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A caviar that doesn't dent sturgeon stocks
A Polish company claims it is now possible to enjoy the authentic taste of caviar without damaging stocks of sturgeon.Warsaw-based Instade Group has launched a product called Tzar Caviar, which is made with mashed fish fillets and...
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Farmers want the Tesco treatment
Tesco's move to raise milk prices and work directly with dairy farmers looks set to open the floodgates for similar demands from other farming sectors.Livestock farmers are already talking about securing retailers' support by the end of...
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Hilton Food Group eyes flotation
Meat processing and packaging company Hilton Food Group could be planning to list on the stock exchange for up to £110m next month.The firm, which packs half of Tesco's beef and lamb, is planning the flotation to fund expansion, with plans...
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Bernard Matthews escapes prosecution
Bernard Matthews has escaped prosecution for leaving bins of scraps uncovered at its Holton cutting plant. The FSA had been looking at evidence the turkey producer breached rules on disposing of animal by-products after BBC news footage...
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Suppliers look to Easter to rescue post-flu sales
Turkey producers are banking on a successful Easter to put sales back on track after February's bird flu scare.Data from Nielsen shows that total fresh turkey sales were still 24% lower in the week ending 17 March than they had been at...
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New Macrae plant services Waitrose
Macrae Edinburgh is to open a new seafood processing plant in Livingstone, Scotland, dedicated to Waitrose.The Young's Seafood-owned company said its £10m factory in Starlaw Park would produce more than 100 product lines for Waitrose,...
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Spotlight - "There has been a constant drive to promote game and make it accessible"
?Venison used to be a poor quality commodity meat, but years of hard work improving processing and branding have paid off, says Christian Nissen, MD of Highland Game The growing popularity of venison and other game meats has not come...
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Public happy to pay for higher animal welfare
EU consumers would pay more for animal welfare-friendly products, according to a survey carried out by Eurobarometer. As many as 72% of UK consumers said farmers should be paid more for high welfare produce and 68% said standards needed...
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Asda Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire0This store did not stock Wall's thick pork sausages but was clean and tidy with attractive displays. Staff were helpful when asked for assistance and were all in uniform. Help was offered with...
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M&S hits back at Viva! over welfare
Marks & Spencer has hit out at criticism by animal rights group Viva! that its pork comes from sows kept in 'cruel' farrowing crates. The retailer said it was disappointed Viva! had sent Heather Mills McCartney into its Oxford Street...
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Merger's got balls to target UK barbecues
A newly merged meat company is poised to bombard the UK retail market with a range of Scandinavian foods aimed at barbecue fans and partygoers. HK Scan, formed from an amalgamation of Scan Foods of Sweden and HK Ruokatalo of Finland, is...
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Cumberland set for sausage PDO bid
Cumbrian butchers are to ask the EU to trademark the Cumberland sausage. The Cumberland Sausage Association said it was finishing off the paperwork on its bid for Protected Denomination of Origin status. If successful, qualifying sausages...
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Top Defra man to take helm at NBA
Stuart Roberts is replacing Robert Forster as the chief executive at the National Beef Association. A senior Defra livestock specialist for many years, Roberts is known for his work setting up the BSE testing regime that led to the...
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Argentinian gauchos set their sights on UK
Argentine beef exporters are launching a €1m promotional campaign in the UK in a bid to repair the damage done by export restrictions. The campaign is being led by the Argentine Beef Promotion Institute (IPCVA) which is spending most of...
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No core species in UK 'are unsustainable'
All the core lines of wild fish sold in the UK are now sustainably sourced, claims major seafood supplier Young's. While environmental groups complain fish stocks are dangerously over-exploited, Young's deputy chief executive Mike Parker...