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NewsMeat producer shares food industry concerns with MP
Provision Trade Federation director general Rod Addy, along with meat and plant-based alternatives producer Vion Food Group, has met with local MP Kevin McKenna to discuss the challenges facing the UK food industry.
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NewsFSA and FSS produce guidance on cell-cultivated products
The Food Standards Agency has partnered with Food Standards Scotland to draw up the UK’s first safety guidance for cell-cultivated products.
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NewsNFU calls on Government to secure exemptions in EU SPS talks
With UK and EU sanitary and phytosanitary talks now underway, the National Farmers’ Union has urged Government to negotiate appropriate transition periods and exemptions to “minimise disruption” to Britain’s farming sector.
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NewsBudget an "uninspiring event" for producers, says NSA
The National Sheep Association has claimed that the Autumn Budget offered “little reassurance” for sheep farmers.
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NewsIndustry responds to Chancellor’s Autumn Budget
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered the much-anticipated 2025 Autumn Budget, reporting that the growth outlook for this year has risen from the 1% forecast in March to 1.5%.
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NewsNFU calls on Prime Minister to rethink inheritance tax
More than 100 businesses, retailers and trade bodies across the food and farming supply chain, including the National Farmers’ Union, have written to the Prime Minister in an open letter urging him to rethink planned changes to inheritance tax.
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NewsEFRA Committee urges Government to implement biosecurity recommendations
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.
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NewsReport finds Defra and APHA “not prepared” for disease outbreak
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.
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NewsHousing order to cover England as avian influenza cases rise
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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NewsNFU announces 2026 Seasonal Worker Scheme allocation
National Farmers’ Union has confirmed with Farming Minister Dame Angela Eagle that the number of visas allocated for the 2026 Seasonal Worker Scheme had been finalised.
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NewsFSA rejects pressure group campaign to remove nitrites from foods
The Food Standards Agency has stood by its opinion that there is “no evidence” that removing nitrites makes processed meat safer.
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NewsNFU Scotland spotlights Scottish producers at Labour Party Conference
National Farmers’ Union Scotland has met with more than 20 MPs and MSPs to spotlight the priorities of Scotland’s farmers at the Labour Party Conference.
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NewsSAMW urges Government to back ‘Grow Baby Grow’ agenda
Scottish Association of Meat Wholesalers has called on Government leaders to back the red meat industry’s ‘Grow Baby Grow’ agenda.
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NewsFDF Trade Snapshot reveals 7.2% uplift in food exports
Data from the Food and Drink Federation shows UK export growth was driven by new global trade opportunities, with non-EU export growth leading EU growth.
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NewsNFU calls for support for UK producers
A total of 27 businesses from across the food supply chain have written to the Farming Minister outlining how Defra and wider Government can work with them to deliver growth across the sector.
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OpinionAIMS “increasingly frustrated” with ad hoc Bluetongue controls
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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NewsDemand for cheap meat is “fuelling illegal imports” finds EFRA
The EFRA Committee has published its new report, ‘Biosecurity at the Border: Britain’s Illegal Meat Crisis’, which has warned that Defra’s approach to personal meat imports has been “unnecessarily lax”.
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NewsEmma Reynolds appointed as Defra Minister
Following a cabinet reshuffle, Emma Reynolds MP has been appointed Minister of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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NewsReforms to HCC “urgently needed” claims Senedd Committee
The Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee in the Senedd has called for reforms to the Welsh meat trade body Hybu Cig Cymru - Meat Promotion Wales.
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NewsSPS agreement welcomed by Dunbia
Meat processor Dunbia met with Food Security Minister Daniel Zeichner to discuss Government’s new sanitary and phytosanitary agreement with the EU.
