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The Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards ceremony at London's Park Lane Hilton on November 21 was a night to remember, with a truly world-class list of winners announced from an incredibly [...]

The Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards ceremony was once again a memorable evening, with an array of successful companies taking well-deserved prizes away from London's Park Lane Hilton on November 5. [...]

Price wars between the major multiples are causing bigger problems for food and drink suppliers than anything they have experienced for many years, as the big four supermarkets battle it [...]

Catherine Brown, the Food Standards Agency's (FSA's) chief executive, is a great believer in 'responsibility'. During the course our discussion, when I met her at the FSA's headquarters in London [...]

The countdown has begun to Foodex 2014, the UK show for food and drink processing, packaging and logistics, which takes place at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre (NEC) from March 24 [...]

Greencore's boss Patrick Coveney deserves the 2.2M € (1.86M £) share bonus he received last December. That certainly has to be the view of City analysts, who reported in glowing [...]

Factory managers are often to be heard saying that if they could design their plant from scratch they would lay things out differently. It's a fact of life that as [...]

The latest consumer research carried out by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) shows that confidence in Britain's food safety watchdog has fallen slightly, which may be, to some degree, a [...]

The horsemeat scandal occupied TV news bulletins and the front pages of the tabloids for much of the early part of this year. And, as far as food manufacturers are [...]

Automation isn't always the right answer to raising productivity in Britain's food and drink manufacturing sector. Ill-advised investments can prove costly white elephants--especially if they are not planned correctly. People [...]

Malicious tampering with food and drink products is a very sensitive subject. Trying to get hard data about how widespread attempts by consumers to fraudulently claim they have discovered 'foreign [...]

Given the antagonism that often exists between retailers and their food manufacturing suppliers, it is refreshing to attend events organised by the Society of Food Hygiene and Technology (SOFHT) where [...]

Mary Creagh, shadow environment secretary, is a self-confessed chocoholic. 'We're very interested in chocolate in this office,' she says. But, given that she is also an avid cyclist and fruit [...]

I don't know how I managed before the traffic light system showing the status of our three production lines was installed outside my office. It is very simple, but very [...]

The historic reluctance of third-party logistics providers (3PLs) to invest in warehouse automation is changing as technological advances enable a flexible, staged introduction which allows costs to be controlled, claimed [...]

Tate & Lyle's (T&Es) launch of its Claria functional 'clean-label' starch is the latest in a raft of supplier introductions that appeal to consumer demand for foods that make use [...]

Tesco looks set to simplify its store offerings, cutting down on the number of stock keeping units (SKUs) it holds, but ensuring their better availability to customers, as it attempts [...]

Soft drinks makers are preparing to fight off mounting attacks they expect from health groups and other critics in the run-up to next year's general election, the president of the [...]

Manufacturers will face much tougher scrutiny and audits from their retail customers, which could face soaring financial penalties running into millions of pounds for mislabelled products under new EU rules, [...]

Given that campylobacter contamination affects around 60% of fresh chickens on sale and causes around 280,000 cases of food poisoning each year, you'd think everyone in the food supply chain [...]

To meet the planning challenges of fulfilling peak demand for specialist foods during religious festivals such as Ramadan, Diwali and the Chinese New Year, Westmill Foods has moved to an [...]

A two-year, EU-wide research project, which began in January this year, could lead to a change in EU rules that came into force in 2013 forcing desinewed meat (DSM) such [...]

Insects could be the next big 'foodie' trend, If a start-up firm which aims to make them more acceptable to UK consumers, has its way. Ento Foods was set up [...]

Tesco's bombshell announcement last month that it had overinflated its profits by a staggering 250M [pounds sterling] for the first six months of the year has really put the proverbial [...]

This autumn will see the first results emerge from the first phase of a two-year research project into the use of steam infusion as a technique for improving the nutritional [...]

Food and drink suppliers should use insights from the success of hard discounters Aldi, Lidl and Poundland to boost their own retail prospects, a category management specialist has claimed. Suppliers [...]

Two Portadown men appeared before magistrates in Northern Ireland (Nl) last month charged with a total of 50 offences, following a joint investigation into suspected human trafficking and labour exploitation [...]

Tomorrrow's food factories will look very different to the ones of today, being designed to raise efficiencies and reduce the cost of production, while offering better sustainability. That's the view [...]

Alpro's decision to reverse plans to combine its soya and nut production lines has shone the spotlight on the need for usable 'action levels' for adventitious allergen contamination of foods. [...]

As you read this, Professor Chris Elliott's report into last year's horsemeat contamination scandal will either just about to be published ... or it will be subject to even further [...]

Food manufacturers could increase their profits by over 10%, simply by more effectively using the waste they generate, claims a specialist food recycling organisation. According to ReFood, 20% of the [...]

The cost cutting culture that exists in supermarket buying departments will have to change if future incidents like last year's horsemeat contamination scandal are to be avoided, according to a [...]

Policy makers, consumers and food manufacturers risk losing focus on the need to cut levels of fat in the nation's diet, following the publication of a scientific report, which called [...]

Nutrition is not a precise science. Most studies on the effects of human dietary intake have to take account of potentially confounding factors, since it is rarely possible to control [...]

Nanotechnology offers great potential for use in the food and drink supply chain, but the public's food safety concerns still need to be overcome, according to the head of the [...]

Bad news continues to dog supermarket chain Morrisons, with the announcement last month that 2,600 store managers were likely to lose their jobs as part of a review of its [...]

Global food and drink giant PepsiCo's future success will hinge on it continuing to innovate, differentiate itself from the competition and raise its operational efficiency to grow its consumer base, [...]

Suppliers remain unconvinced that the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) Christine Tacon is doing enough to stop the big supermarkets abusing their power. Just 21 % of 522 respondents to Food [...]

News that supermarket chain Sainsbury had entered into a 25M [pounds sterling] joint venture (jv) with Dansk Supermarked to establish 15 Netto stores across the UK was further evidence that [...]

Industry leaders have hit out at the low priority given to food manufacturing within the government's Agritech strategy launched in July last year, which some argue is too heavily biased [...]

The UK convenience store market is expected to increase in value to 49bn £ by 2019, growing by over 30% in the next five years from a current value of [...]

Food science offers solutions to many of the biggest challenges facing the world today, claimed the director of innovation and skills at the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) [...]

The government is unlikely to return authenticity and labelling policy to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) as recommended by Professor Chris Elliott's interim report into last year's horsemeat scandal. Food [...]

It's time for food scientists to raise their heads above the parapet and make the case for science and technology in feeding the world. The huge challenges facing us and [...]

The National Centre for Food Manufacturing (NCFM), part of the University of Lincoln's Holbeach campus, has been praised by the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted), which inspects educational establishments, [...]

This month (May) marks the formal launch of the Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards, which are now open for entries. The awards--now in their 13th year--celebrate excellence and world-class manufacturing across [...]

Market intelligence should be used far more to detect food fraud, following the lessons learned from last year's horsemeat contamination scandal, but the question of who pays for it remains [...]

Taxes on food and drink containing high levels of saturated fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) would need to be so high to have any significant effect on reducing obesity levels [...]

The latest scandal within the foodservice sector, with a Which? survey of takeaway lamb curries and kebabs identifying the presence of other cheaper species including beef, chicken and turkey, just [...]

New rules requiring all large firms to undertake mandatory energy efficiency assessments could end up being a major cost burden unless the findings are used to introduce savings in the [...]