Powters gets new Tesco listings
Family-run Newmarket sausage producer, Powters, has announced it has gained new store listings with Tesco for its Newmarket Pig and Skinny Pig sausages. L-R: Grant and Tristan Powter of Powters Sausages. The fifth-generation sausage company has been producing its Newmarket Pig sausages since 1881 and has worked steadily with Tesco since the 1990s selling its Newmarket Pig and Skinny Pig (a premium, low fat and gluten free sausage) in...
Food Awards judging in full swing
Headed up by well-known meat and food expert Keith Fisher, the chief executive of the IoM, product judging for this year’s FMT Food Industry Awards is underway and has started the process of evaluating a record entry of products for this year’s Food Awards judging at Harper Adams University. Head judge Keith Fisher reports that entries are of a very high standard. Product judging for this year was postponed twice previously because of...
Meat consumption targeted in proposed tough new GHG emission targets
A reduction in meat and dairy consumption was cited as part of the Government’s new, ambitious revised green house gas (GHG) emissions target to achieve a 78% reduction by 2035. The CEO of the Sustainable Food Trust, Patrick Holden, was keen for a distinction to be made between sustainable meat production and industrial meat consumption: “It’s encouraging to see the Government ramping up measures to combat climate change....
LMC and UFU join forces for Northern Ireland Beef Week 2021
The Livestock and Meat Commission (LMC) is working in collaboration with the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU), to celebrate Northern Ireland’s beef this NI Beef Week. This year the week-long event, running from 23rd to 30th April will focus on how Northern Ireland Farm Quality Assured (NIFQA) beef is farmed with the environment in mind, and is naturally nutritious. LMC chief executive Ian Stevenson commented: “We are once again proud to...
Tesco fined for admitting 22 breaches of food safety regulations
Tesco has been fined £7.56 million for selling out-of-date food at three stores in Birmingham.
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