Mar 27, 2019 | Food Packing, News
Moy Park has launched a new campaign to tackle the use of plastics and packaging across its business. The company plans to reduce its overall usage of packaging by 5% year on year while also increasing the percentage of recyclable packaging by 5%. The target is...
Mar 12, 2019 | Food Packing, News
Europe’s largest dairy cooperative, Arla Foods, has announced its ambition that by 2050 its operations from cow to consumer will be carbon net zero, with any unavoidable emissions entirely offset by improvements elsewhere in the supply chain. The company says it aims...
Feb 22, 2019 | Food Equipment & Services, Food Packing, News
New information has been published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to ensure import and export trade in animals, animal products, fish and food can continue in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. This guidance is...
Feb 19, 2019 | Food Packing, News
Responding to the news that the Government has launched a series of consultations covering food waste, plastics, and recycling, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) has strongly welcomed the focus and called for tangible measures to be introduced....
Jan 25, 2019 | Food Packing, News, Retailing
The Government has announced it will be launching a consultation on proposed amends to food labelling to help prevent deaths of people with allergies. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Food Standards Agency (FSA), Food Standards Scotland...
Jan 17, 2019 | Food Equipment & Services, Food Packing, News, Vegetable Processing
A fund has been opened by the government, to substantially reduce waste from food businesses, under a multi-million pound pilot scheme. Food redistribution organisations in England will be able to bid into a £5 million pot to help them overcome the financial barrier...
