EBLEX QSM celebrates 10 years
The EBLEX Quality Standard Mark ( QSM) Scheme for beef and lamb is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. The Scheme currently has over 2,100 independent retailer members as well as all of the multiple retailers and their suppliers, major processors and manufacturers, and many foodservice groups and individuals, ranging from the public sector to pubs, restaurants, hotels and Michelin starred chefs as members. Laura Bishop, EBLEX...
BPEX to hold biosecurity seminars
BPEX is holding a series of biosecurity seminars as the industry faces ever growing threats from African Swine Fever and Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea. They will feature a video of US producer Harold Lee of Meadow Hill Farm, Iowa, sharing his experiences of PEDv control. Other speakers at the event include vet David Chennells, BPEX veterinary advisor Derek Armstrong and the AHVLA covering surveillance and providing biosecurity advice....
EBLEX ‘Festival of Lamb’ set to drive quality lamb sales
With an abundance of good quality lamb currently available, thanks to favourable weather conditions throughout the lambing season, EBLEX is aiming to help retailers and caterers make the most of the opportunity with a ‘Festival of Lamb’ this autumn. Consumer demand for quality assured lamb is set to be at an all-time high as a result. Spearheaded by a national TV advertising campaign airing on ITV during September and October, EBLEX...
New BDCI scholarship scheme open for applications
The BDCI is inviting applications from students undertaking a course of study which will result in a qualification related to the meat industry. Having recently changed its status to an incorporated body, the BDCI is now in a position to provide financial support for education. As such, it will now offer funding to two students each year, providing each successful applicant with a bursary of £5,000 per annum for the period of the...
Ethical debate around religious slaughter continues as politicians publish latest report
An all-party parliamentary group has published a report into the continuing ethical debate around religious slaughter and the issues around stunning and non-stunning. For meat to be halal an animal is required to meet its end at the hands of a slaughterman with a knife but some Muslims remain concerned about stunning fearing that it could kill the animal outright. Whilst the vast majority of halal meat in the UK comes from stunned...
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