Summit to tackle latest issues in food safety
The many challenges involved in ensuring comprehensive food safety throughout processing and packing operations and the best practice solutions to achieve this will be outlined at the second Ishida Europe Food Safety Summit, to be held at Sheffield Hallam University...
Poland leads food recalls in Q2 2019
Poland was top of the pile for food recalls in the second quarter of 2019 – the first time they have been the lead country of origin since at least 2016. A total of 88 recalls and notifications could be traced to the Eastern European nation, ahead of Turkey with 72,...
UK convenience channel to be worth £48.2 billion by 2024
New forecasts from IGD reveal that the UK convenience market is set to grow by £6.9bn in the next five years, to reach £48.2bn by 2024. The channel will benefit from lots of new store openings over the period, helping to fuel a compound annual growth rate of 3.1%....
Seafood fraud putting consumers safety at risk
In the wake of a five-year-long bait-and-switch scheme in which a Virginia-based seafood company intentionally mislabelled crabmeat, Lloyd’s Register is calling for the seafood industry to do more to confront rogue behaviour. Casey’s Seafood imported 183 tons of...
A third of teachers lost on sources of food and farming info
A third (33%) of teachers do not know where to go for information on food, farming and healthy eating practices, according to YouGov research commissioned by AHDB. Teachers said that they were most likely to turn to organisations, which are not specialist in the area,...
