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NewsNew GCSE to improve knowledge of food provenance
Teachers from across north Wales gathered in Menai Bridge this week for a training event to discuss a comprehensive new food qualification and methods on how to teach pupils about where their food comes from.The course was organised by Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Production Wales (HCC) and education consortium ...
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NewsBernard Matthews acquisition cleared by CMA
The Competitions Market Authority (CMA) has cleared the acquisition of Bernard Matthews by Boparan Private Office.In a statement on its website the CMA said: “The CMA investigated and cleared the completed acquisition by enterprises conducted by Ranjit Boparan and Baljinder Boparan of the business formerly carried on by Bernard Matthews ...
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NewsTesco reports successful Christmas
Tesco has reported like-for-like sales growth of 1.4% in its UK & ROI business for the 19 weeks to 7th January 2017. This represents a fourth consecutive reported period of growth for the multiple retailer.Photo: Richard Eaton.In this period UK volumes rose by 1.1% and transactions were up 2.1%. The ...
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NewsCountdown begins for Q Guild Smithfield Awards
Anticipation is beginning to build ahead of the Butchers Q Guild’s Smithfield Awards, which will be presented on Wednesday 1st February.The annual awards ceremony will be staged in Ironmongers Hall in London.Tom Parker-BowlesThis year the event has attracted a record entry of almost 600 individual products, an increase on the ...
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NewsDetails announced for AHDB Beef & Lamb Halal Seminar
The AHDB Beef & Lamb Halal Seminar 2017 will take place on 22nd February at the Crowne Plaza in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, to shine a light on consumer needs in the halal sector.The major industry event will provide a platform to discuss the key issues and opportunities for the halal trade ...
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NewsMeatup visitor promotion in full swing
The meat industry’s very own dedicated biennial exhibition has confirmed that it is organising one of its most extensive promotional campaigns to date, designed to encourage quality visitors to visit the show on 24th and 25th May this year.Meatup 2017 will take place over two days on 24th and 25th ...
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Multivac acquires share in TVI
Multivac’s German business Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller SE & Co. KG has acquired a 49.9% share in machinery company TVI.The companies will place focus on integrating and linking TVI’s products and Multivac’s packaging machines into complete lines.Multivac has described the acquisition as a “strategically important step in being able to offer, ...
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NewsPoultry firm ordered to pay over £24,000 in costs and damages
Bradford based Halal abattoir and poultry supplier, Yorkshire Poultry Products, has been ordered to pay over £24,000 in costs and damages for using bread baskets belonging to bakery equipment company Bakers Basco without its permission.Bakers Basco's bread baskets.District judge Hickinbottom ruled at a hearing in the County Court in Bradford ...
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NewsButchers and multiple retailers enjoy a buoyant Christmas
Christmas meat sales for 2016 offered up some promising results for many butchers up and down the country, as well as the major retailers.Roger Kelsey, the National Federation of Meat and Food Traders’ chief executive, told Meat Management: “Christmas trade was very good with sales around the same as last ...
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NewsNick Allen to leave AHDB for BMPA chief executive role
Nick Allen, AHDB’s market development director, is leaving to take up a new role as chief executive of the British Meat Processors’ Association (BMPA).Nick Allen, ADHB's market development director, has been appointed chief executive of the BMPA.Allen, who currently heads up AHDB’s export, marketing and education teams, has spent almost ...
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NewsFood industry triples support for action on antibiotics
A recent study shows that funding for the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture (RUMA) Alliance has more than tripled this year.The funding comes in support of a new business plan that will help UK farming play its part in the global drive to reduce antibiotic use across animal and ...
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NewsJohn Vernon dies aged 82
Third generation butcher John Vernon has died aged 82, passing away at the end of 2016.John Vernon died on 28th December 2016.John was part of the meat industry from a young age. From pottering about in his family’s shop after school and on weekends, John began full time at J ...
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NewsBernard Matthews’ pension shortfall ‘grows to £40 million’
Trustees and the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) are investigating whether cash was taken from the Bernard Matthews pension scheme when the company went into administration last year, reports in the media have said.Both the PPF and trustees are said to be currently working to maximise the recoveries for 700 members ...
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Meat theft at Sussex farm shop
Farm shop, Perryhill Orchards, near Hartfield in Sussex has had approximately £2,000 worth of meat products stolen in what Sussex police has described as a ‘well planned attack’.According to Sussex police the raiders struck at the farm shop at around 7.45pm on Friday 30th December after the owner had left ...
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ABP to lead food innovation as part of consortium
ABP Food Group has been selected as part of a pan-European consortium, set up to lead ground breaking food research and improve food production levels throughout the supply chain.The consortium was chosen by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Alongside ABP Food Group it features 50 partners including ...
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NewsUK pig semen to improve pork quality in India
Pig semen from the UK has been used for the first time in India to improve its breeding stock and produce better quality pork.The first ever shipment of frozen porcine semen has arrived in the country and is being used by the Punjab Government to develop a high-health nucleus of ...
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NewsAvian Influenza Prevention Zone extended
An Avian Influenza Prevention Zone that has been in place since 6th December will be extended until 28th February to help protect poultry and captive birds from avian flu, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has confirmed.The extension of the Prevention Zone follows cases of the H5N8 strain ...
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NewsMorrisons cuts meat prices
Multiple retailer Morrisons has cut the price of 800 of its items – including fresh meat products – by an average of 19%.The price drop includes Morrisons British Turkey Thigh Mince (500g) falling from £2.34 to £2.00 and Morrisons British Beef Meatball (12pk), which has been cut from £2.00 to ...
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NewsAvian Influenza case confirmed in Wales
A case of Avian Influenza (AI) H5N8 has been confirmed in a back yard flock of chickens and ducks in Pontyberem, Carmarthenshire.Prior to the confirmation of AI it was decided to cull the birds on strong suspicion of the disease. A three kilometre Protection Zone and a ten kilometre Surveillance ...
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NewsFood figures recognised in New Year’s Honours list
Sarah Church, director for food and environmental risk at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), has been made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 2017 New Year’s Honours List for her services to British food and farming.Defra's Sarah Church.Church took up her current ...
