New chief executive of FSA announced
The Food Standards Agency has announced the appointment of Emily Miles as its new chief executive. Emily is currently the acting Director-General for the EU Exit Delivery Group in Defra and will join the FSA in September 2019. With a civil service career spanning...
Women In Meat Awards voting at record levels
The Women In Meat Industry Awards is set to break its own voting record with well over 2,000 votes received in just a matter of days covering the 2019 finalists. Last year a total of 3,000 votes were received and this year it appears that the level of voting will...
Plans announced for England’s first national food and drink transparency centre – Happerley
Happerley is the brainchild of farmer Matthew Rymer, who has consulted across the food industry and worked over the last three years to create, what he calls, a means and a will to turn the food and drink industry transparent, empowering consumers to make choices...
Organic on a roll for JCS Fish
Sales of organic salmon are said to be motoring at JCS Fish, reflecting continued expansion of the UK organic food market overall, which is now estimated to be worth £2.33 BN a year and growing.[i] 35% of BigFish brand sales are now organic and JCS Fish is...
Poultry Quarterly Q3 2019: improved but fragile market conditions
According to Rabobank's Q3 poultry report the global poultry market has experienced gradually improving market conditions in 1H 2019, and this trend is expected to remain over the coming months. Its key findings include: The main driver for the market improvement has...
