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ROUND-UP: Processing

Here is your weekly round-up of processing news. If you have a news item you would like to submit for next week’s round-up, please contact Carly Wood at mailto:carly@bellpublishing.com. FOODesign, a tna company, has launched the cryo-jet 5 ambient and chilled air cooling system. A modular pod system for conveying free flowing powders or granular […]

Food safety, Ingredients, Regulatory

Technology reduces campylobacter by 90%

Rapid surface chilling (RSC), a new cryogenic technology developed by Bernard Matthews and BOC, could enable the poultry industry and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the UK to meet their 2015 joint campylobacter reduction target. Campylobacter bacterium is found on the surface of almost all raw chicken and is the most common cause of […]

Food safety, Ingredients, Regulatory

Butchery apprenticeship standard approved

The new butchery apprenticeship standard developed over the last seven months by a range of employers, including Morrisons, Aubrey Allen, Fairfax Meadow, Bernard Matthews and Tulip Ltd, has been formally published following ministerial approval. These trailblazing butchery businesses, along with the wider sector, will be celebrating as months of hard work in reforming the butchery […]

Turkey firm unveils biogas plant project

UK turkey farmer and supplier Bernard Matthews is to install a biogas plant to ‘improve the company’s waste handling and energy costs’. Xergi is to supply Holton Renewable Power – a joint venture between Bernard Matthews and Glendale Power, a development company specialising in anaerobic digestion – with a biogas plant. The plant will be […]

Food safety, Packaging, Sustainability

Many happy returns for ‘thriving’ labelling firm

UK labelling firm Industrial Labelling Systems has celebrated its tenth birthday, and says ‘it’s not just surviving, but thriving’. “The last three or four years have proved really tough for the UK labelling industry, but we have managed to differentiate ourselves through the flexibility, ease of use and modularity of our systems,” says MD Denis […]

Food safety, Packaging

Turkey is best of British

Bernard Matthews Food Service has won Best Catering Product for its latest idea for school meals. The company’s British Turkey Breast Steak met with high praise from the independent panel for judges at the 2006 British Turkey Awards, The ‘top quality’ product was considered an extremely useful choice for caterers. The British Turkey Steak is […]

Business news, Food safety, Ingredients, Sustainability