PDM to expand its Doncaster Anaerobic Digestion site
PDM, the UK’s largest food waste recycler, is to double the size of its ReFood Doncaster anaerobic digestion (AD) plant. Doncaster was ReFood’s first AD plant in the UK and has been operational since the summer of 2011. For more than 80 years, the family-run company has been the UK’s largest processor of meat and poultry by-products and has diversified its offering into food processing; pet food ingredient manufacturing;...
West Yorkshire butcher serves up champion prime pork
John Summers Family Butchers in Clayton is now serving up championship and reserve championship-winning pork at its Druids Street shop. Mr Summers attended Skipton Auction Mart’s high profile Christmas primestock shows to successfully bid for the champion trio of Piétrain-cross gilts shown by John Midgley, of Ludendenfoot. In fact, he was buying the title winners from the same exhibitor for the second year in succession, again paying...
Concerns over possible meat labelling confusion
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 – a decision which may increase consumer confidence at a time when the industry is still reeling...
Christmas Closedown
The Meat Management offices will be closed from 1pm on Friday 20th December, and reopening on Thursday 2nd January 2014. We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our readers and advertisers a very happy Christmas and here’s to a successful 2014!
Free pre-audit for non assured abattoirs and meat processors
Any non-assured abattoir, cutting plant or meat processor based in England wishing to join the EBLEX Quality Standard Mark (QSM) Scheme is invited to contact EBLEX to apply for a free pre-audit. The one-day visit, which is free of charge, will be carried out by EBLEX technical staff and will identify any non-conformances which may prevent accreditation to the QSM or another appropriate assurance scheme. It will highlight any potential...
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