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Pork Farms re-launches brand
Pork Farms is to re-launch its range of branded chilled savoury foods, which includes cold pies, slices, sausage rolls and Scotch eggs. The packaging will, for the first time, highlight that Pork Farms products contain 100% British meat and are colour coordinated by variant and flavour. Each SKU in the range carries its own Union […]
Hygienic eco-design
Roberto Ortuño, Technical Support and Analytical Services Director at Spanish research and development centre AINIA – considers the Eco-Dhybat project, which eco-hygienic design in the food industry.
An under-current of connections
When I started compiling this issue of Food and Drink Technology, I naturally looked at the individually scheduled features. The aim it to provide you, across the year, with a wide range of topics that highlights the many segments relevant to the food and drink industries. Apart from this relevance, they are not directly linked. […]
UK’s new Food Engineering Degree meets industry support target
The UK’s first-ever Food Engineering Degree has reached a major milestone with over 40 leading food and drink businesses now pledging practical industry support to students. The National Skills Academy for Food & Drink, which has partnered with the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) and Sheffield Hallam University to create the new MEng degree, today […]
Eden Project teams up with TV chef for pasty range
The British environmental and nature attraction Eden Project has teamed up with TV chef James Strawbridge and a team of local suppliers to create a range of pasties. The pasties in the Eden Extraordinary range have gone on sale at Eden, ahead of the World Pasty Championships that wilonment and nature attractionl be held there […]
Environmentally friendly proteins
A recent study in the Netherlands sought to discover the motivational differences in food orientation and choice made from environmentally friendly proteins such as lentils, insects, seaweed or ‘hybrid’ meat. The Food Choice Motives (FCMs) questionnaire was used in a survey of a sample from the general population to examine which environmentally friendly proteins would […]
New Dutch beef contaminated with horse meat
The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has seized meat from a slaughterhouse in Gelderland in a preventive block. During a criminal investigation by the Intelligence and Investigation Service (IOD), horse DNA was found in four batches of beef scraps from the slaughterhouse. All consignments of meat (over 690 tons) that the slaughterhouse […]
Purpose built Swithenbank depot opens to meet growing demand
Leading wholesale food distributor 3663 has opened a new purpose built depot for its Swithenbank Fresh & Fine Foods specialist business, to support growing customer demand in the South East region. Swithenbank has over 120 years of trading experience. Whilst retaining and embracing this heritage, the small business has since evolved to sit under the […]
‘Soft chill’ technology improves temperature control for food processors
A new way of using liquid nitrogen to control the temperature of foods while they are being processed will improve quality, even when used with the most heat-sensitive or reactive foods, according to Air Products. As an effective refrigerant, liquid nitrogen has long been used to help control the temperature of a […]
Caldic Sweden expands production capabilities and services
Caldic Sweden, a full service distributor of food ingredients, expands its business by acquiring the former factory of IFF, International Flavor & Fragrances, in Knislinge. The 17.000m2 land is comprised of modern offices, laboratories and test kitchens, state-of-the-art production and warehouse facilities. This expansion underlines Caldic’s ambition to strengthen its position as a leading full […]
NFU and NPA concerned as meat labelling rules may confuse British shoppers
The NFU and NPA say that new European Commission rules on food labelling may lead to massive confusion for British shoppers keen to buy meat produced in the UK. The Commission voted to introduce mandatory reared and slaughtered labelling rules. The NFU and NPA say that mandatory rules should have extended to born, reared and slaughtered […]
FSA welcomes Elliott horsemeat report
The UK’s National Farmers Union has issued a guarded response to the interim Elliott report into the horsemeat scandal that hit the British food industry early in 2013. “It is right that action is being taken to ensure that meat labelled as British is British and has all the high standards associated with British […]
Food scares are merely tip of the iceberg
Product recalls and other food safety incidents reported to and by the Food Standards Agency are merely the tip of the iceberg, according to research performed by Trace One. While the general public is only aware of food recalls that affect major retailers or have wide-reaching consequences (such as the 2013 horse meat crisis), the […]
New absorber for meat and fish trays
As part of a new sales agreement with Paper Pak Industries (PPI), Faerch Plast – a producer of plastic containers for the food industry – is now offering a new type of absorber for use in its trays for fresh meat and fish. The PPI UltraZap XtendaPak, placed underneath the packaged meat, limits bacteria growth […]