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Asda axes best before dates on fruit and vegetables
Asda has become the latest supermarket to remove best before dates on certain products in a bid to reduce food waste both in store and in consumer homes.
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Kraft Heinz employees get 11 percent pay increase
Kraft Heinz has confirmed that the pay deal was the result of annual negotiations with staff at its Kitt Green manufacturing site, the largest Heinz facility in the world.
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Arla launches first dairy climate roadmap with targets verified by SBTi
In a first for the UK dairy industry, Arla has launched its Climate Roadmap – Towards Carbon Net Zero Dairy, as the cooperative works to provide clear information around the future of sustainable dairy production.
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Consumers exposed to potentially harmful lead shot in pheasants
It’s not uncommon to find some shotgun pellets in your pheasant, but could consumers be eating too much lead inadvertently?
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Where are we with ‘forever chemicals’?
Regulatory measures are welcomed progress as concerns over PFAS in the global food chain increase in Europe.
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Queen’s University Belfast announces Denis Lynn scholarship
Denis Lynn founded on of Northern Ireland’s most successful food manufacturers and non-profit organisation Foundation Earth.
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Soil Association Certification welcomes new commercial and marketing director
The UK organic certification organisation has announced the appointment of Alex Cullen as its new Commercial and Marketing Director.
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Recall roundup: Listeria, foreign objects and undeclared cashew
This week's recall roundup features a Listeria monocytogenes alert, plus several recalls relating to foreign objects.
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The latest crucial ingredient in beer? Laughter…
If you want to improve the flavour of your beer, you simply need to laugh into it – that’s the secret weapon of a new brew from Vault City Brewing and a special guest.
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Recycling should be last resort for managing packaging waste
Josephine Liang, CEO of the reusable lunchbox scheme CauliBox, asserts that recycling won’t solve our sustainability problems.
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Gü sets target to double global business by 2025
As uncertainty surrounds the food and beverage industry, Gü is instead setting an ambitious growth target of doubling its global business by 2025.
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Mars and the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
Nici Bush of Mars offers some insight into what happens at the Nobel Lindau meetings and what they mean for the food and beverage industry.
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UK council finds cockroaches and droppings in takeaways
The local authority says it has closed those 10 businesses that failed inspections, with legal action from the council not ruled out.
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Can healthy food help save the NHS?
In his second column, Sepe Sehati discusses the UK's relationship with food and how well-thought-out government initiatives coupled with a change of mindset and lifestyle could help create a healthier Britain and save the dying NHS.
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Bakers urge Defra to fight against “sourfaux”
Campaigners within the UK baking sector want more stringent regulations on ingredient listing on products to fight against what they are calling “sourfaux”.
