IFFA to showcase trends in ingredients and additives
The improvement in food safety and product quality is a topic that is preoccupying the entire meat-processing sector. Spice manufacturers have important new approaches to offer for keeping meat and meat products fresh, including, for example, the use of natural extracts. For fermented foods there are starter cultures and protective cultures that have an important contribution to make to food safety. This applies particularly if the...
Institute of Meat gives its winners a royal occasion to remember
The Institute of Meat (IOM) and The Meat Training Council’s (MTC) award ceremony at Butchers’ Hall was attended by The Princess Royal, who handed out special awards, MTC Master Butcher Accreditations and Institute of Meat fellowships to individuals for their outstanding contributions to the industry. Chief executive of the IOM, Keith Fisher hosted the event and said: “This award ceremony is all about acknowledging...
A pivotal moment for food production
NFU president Peter Kendall has used his opening address at this week’s annual NFU Conference to argue that the horse meat scandal shows the need for a major shift in the way food is delivered. Speaking in Birmingham today, Kendall said one of the lessons to be learned from the current food scandal is that the great British consumer wants their food to be produced as close to home as possible. “This boils down to a clear and simple...
Consumers are going to have to learn more about their food
Commenting on Tesco’s announcement that it is to begin to bring its meat production chain “closer to home” Deborah Hallett, managing director of 90 Degrees said that in order for that to be a viable proposition, consumers would need to improve their education about where their food was coming from in a bid to appreciate why the cost of it may have to inevitably rise. Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme,...
Tesco vows to bring meat production “closer to home”
Speaking to the BBC earlier today Tesco’s chief executive Philip Clarke pledged to shorten the meat production chain so it is: “Closer to home.” That may be beginning with chicken as Tesco has said that by July all its chicken meat will come from British farms. He also said that a new testing process will mean that consumers can be sure that what is in the packet will be reflected on the label. “The testing...
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