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UK Supreme Champion Sausage served at WCB Court Lunch

2025-11-07T12:53:00+00:00

This year’s UK Supreme Sausage Champion winning banger was served to delighted Liverymen and guests at the Worshipful Company of Butchers November Court Lunch at Butchers’ Hall in London.

LMC delivers red meat workshops to teachers

2025-11-07T10:34:00+00:00

The Livestock and Meat Commission for Northern Ireland has delivered its latest Red Meat Skills Workshop, bringing together GCSE and A-Level Food Science teachers from across the region for a day of learning, collaboration, and creativity.

Report finds Defra and APHA “not prepared” for disease outbreak

2025-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

A report from the Public Accounts Committee has looked at the UK’s resilience to animal diseases such as bird flu, which it says pose a “significant threat” to the UK’s health, communities, wildlife, economy, trade and agriculture.

EU votes to recognise UK BSE status as negligible

2025-11-06T09:37:00+00:00

EU Member States have voted in favour of recognising the UK as having negligible status for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.

Housing order to cover England as avian influenza cases rise

2025-11-05T10:51:00+00:00

The UK Chief Veterinary Officer has ordered a mandatory housing order to cover the whole of England from Thursday 6th November 2025, following the escalating number of confirmations of avian influenza in kept and wild birds.

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Food for thought
2025-10-06T16:27:00+01:00By Lamyah Moochhala
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.
“Skills for what?”
2025-09-10T15:13:00+01:00By Kerry Maxwell
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.
AIMS “increasingly frustrated” with ad hoc Bluetongue controls
2025-09-09T14:47:00+01:00By Jason Aldiss
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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