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Smaller food and drink operators are more in favour of a Brexit than big manufacturers

Brexit debate

Brexit backed by more smaller food firms

By Rick Pendrous

Support for a Brexit in next month’s EU referendum is stronger among smaller food and drink operators, with many not expecting it to make a very big difference to their businesses, according to a new survey conducted by the publisher of this website.

Sustainable manufacturing has much to offer food and drink manufacturers

Sustainable manufacturing: unlocking the future

By Mark Jolly

Sustainable manufacturing is the process of creating products through economically-sound processes that minimise the negative environmental impacts, while also conserving energy and natural resources. It carries significant promise for food and drink...

Bagging the top prize: Sandrine Garnier collected the award from Foodex’s Dan  Dixon

Foodex 2016

Antibacterial bag wins Foodex Best New Idea

By Michael Stones

An antibacterial Bag for Life – designed to prevent food infections from most common types of bacteria – won the Best New Idea award at the trade event Foodex 2016.

New CBI survey reports UK businesses are stable, but there are growing concerns over skills shortages

UK businesses ‘stable’ but skills shortage fears growing

By Gwen Ridler

Business conditions for UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) stabilised over the past quarter but the looming skills shortage is still cause for concern, warned the latest Confederation of British Industry (CBI) quarterly trends survey.

An Irish trade delegation to Iran is promoting the dairy industry, and hoping to explore new opportunities since international sanctions were lifted earlier this year. Photo: iStock - selensergen

Irish delegation promoting dairy in Iran

By Jim Cornall

Bord Bia; the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; and 17 Irish food companies are visiting Iran on a trade mission - the first from Ireland since international sanctions were lifted earlier this year.

The NFU is organizing 28 events around the UK for farmers to discuss the implications of the UK's potential exit from the EU.

NFU won’t campaign, but opposes Brexit

By Jim Cornall

The UK’s National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has said that after evaluating of the agricultural merits of the case, it is in favor of staying in the European Union (EU).

Parabel's water lentil harvesting facility in Florida

Barentz backs water lentils for protein

Dutch ingredients player Barentz International has partnered with Floridian biotech start-up Parabel USA to globally distribute ‘water lentil’-derived protein.

Food & Drink Expo: Preview of new products on show in UK

Food & Drink Expo: Preview of new products on show in UK

By Vince Bamford

More than 1,200 exhibitors will gather in Birmingham, UK, next week across four events hosted by William Reed, owner of BakeryandSnacks.com: Foodex, Food & Drink Expo incorporating the Farm Shop & Deli Show and the National Convenience Show. Here...

Improved motor drives have boosted food plant efficiency

Modern drives boost food plant efficiency

By Robert Brooks

Over the past two decades, there have been dramatic changes in the functionality and capabilities of motor drives. Their increased performance has transformed machine design.

The PalExpo halls will be bursting with bright ideas at this year's Vitafoods conference and expo in Geneva

Vitafoods Europe 2016, Geneva, Switzerland, May 10-12

Vitafoods to showcase nutrition innovation boom

92% of 800+ ingredient and product exhibitors that attended Vitafoods Europe in Geneva last year said they would launch at least one product in the following year.

'It’s like sprinkling every bite you take with starch and sugar,' said Irakli Loladze, an associate professor at Bryan College of Health Sciences and report co-author. © iStock

CO2 rises could fuel obesity as plants “carb-load”

By David Burrows

The nutritional quality of food will plummet as carbon emissions rise, with every bite delivering less protein, fewer micronutrients and more sugars, according to a report released this week.

“I fear the same objection policies will prevail into the new regulation,

Dispatches from EFSA stakeholder meeting in Brussels

Novel regulation - same old delays? Stakeholders express novel food process concerns

By Annie Harrison-Dunn

The updated novel food regulation has been billed by the European Commission as a new streamline system that will put innovation back on the EU menu – yet attendees of a stakeholders meeting this week expressed concern these hopes would be dashed by duplication...

The supermarket price war is costing food manufacturers dear, warns Moore Stephens

More food producers go bust, after ‘supermarket price war’

By Michael Stones

The rate of food manufacturers going bust has tripled in five years – with an 11% rise in firms going out of business in the past year alone – as a direct result of “cut-throat competition” between the UK’s leading supermarkets, warns accounting and consulting...

ANSES fails to back nutrient profile-based labelling systems

French find fault in 4 or 5-class nutrient profiling

By Shane Starling

The French food safety agency (ANSES) has concluded two nutrient profiling systems won’t provide people with easily understandable grading of food into four or five classes depending on their healthiness.

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