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Product entry and voting is now well underway for the annual FMT Food Industry Awards, with product nomination forms and online voting for the 2026 initiative live online.
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Craft Skills Scotland has hosted the 2025 Scottish Craft Butcher Training Awards, which recognises outstanding talent in the industry.
UK food retailer Tesco has launched an extension to its environmental baselining programme and called on Government for a national farm data framework to support food security.
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board has analysed red meat retail data from Worldpanel by Numerator, finding that primary pig meat saw a 5.1% volume increase over the 12 weeks to 2nd November.
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee has warned that a delay in the implementation of its recommendations to Government on biosecurity will allow “alarming amounts” of illegal imports to cross the border.
Your November edition includes: All the winners and finalists from this year's UK Sausage Week Awards; Spotlight on the Anuga Cologne 2025 trade fair; The Butcher focus.
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Maintaining traditional eating habits helps communities stay connected to their heritage, says IMTA’s Lamyah Moochhala, which is why it is necessary to be informed by cultural diversity when considering both meat marketing tactics and the National Food Strategy.
Exhausted by endless Government soundbites, the BPC’s Kerry Maxwell argues that it’s time to look beyond the platitudes to properly interrogate what needs to be done to tackle the UK’s skills gap for the future.
The Association of Independent Meat Suppliers has revealed its frustration with the UK Bluetongue controls, as executive director Jason Aldiss finds the controls have imposed costs and disrupted the meat industry.
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