BMPA implements new Pork Quality Scheme
Following a major review of its pork quality standards, the BMPA has launched its updated Pork Scheme. Over several months, the BMPA carried out an evaluation of its standards to ensure that it meets the changing needs of consumers, retailers and manufacturers. The scheme will also require participants to enhance their scope to cover external cold stores, improve their audit arrangements and demonstrate an understanding of their...
Surge in membership for Scottish Quality Assurance Scheme
There has been a significant increase in the number of farmers applying to become members of Quality Meat Scotland’s Cattle and Sheep Quality Assurance scheme. At the start of this year QMS launched a major recruitment drive to increase the membership of this quality assurance scheme. The first four months of 2015 more than 160 applications from new members were received. Currently, over 90% of Scotland’s breeding cattle population...
HCC entertains European red meat buyers
Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales, (HCC,) has arranged three visits for European buyers of red meat as a result of networking at recent events and meetings. It also reinforced its relationship with a major German retailer through a guided tour of an abattoir. HCC hosted two site tours of two different processing and packaging plants for a wholesaler and a supermarket buyer from the Netherlands which involved viewings of a lamb...
Bill Gates blog mirrors Meatup seminar themes
In his latest blog billionaire (and reformed vegetarian) Bill Gates addresses several of the topics to be addressed at the Meatup and Food Science & Technology Show seminars later this summer. Should meat consumption be reduced? and Has meat consumption peaked and if so what can we do about it? will be addressed by Professor Ralph Early and Professor David Hughes. The production and consumption of meat are frequently attacked as...
Danes publish progress in delivering improvements in pig welfare
The Danish Pig Research Centre has just published details of the progress made in implementing the agreements reached at the Pig Welfare Summit in March 2014. Last year’s meeting was called by the Danish Minister of Food, Agriculture & Fisheries, Dan Jørgensen, and signatories to the agreement included representatives from the Danish Pig Research Centre (now part of SEGES), leading consumer and animal welfare organisations, the...
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