Foodservice Industry Briefing

  • Foodservice Footprint Unknown-34 Future of food safety is in the balance Foodservice Industry Briefing Out of Home News Analysis  Tesco Mitchells & Butlers Julie Barratt Food Standards Agency Food Safety management System Chartered Institute of Environmental Health BRC Global Standards

    Future of food safety is in the balance

    The Food Standards Agency is quietly proposing the most dramatic shake-up of regulations in almost 20 years. Nick Hughes looks at the details. You could be forgiven for not having heard of “Regulating Our Future”.  The document was pushed out… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Unknown-23 Do fake farms have a future? Foodservice Industry Briefing Out of Home News Analysis

    Do fake farms have a future?

    Supermarkets are divided over the value of the invented brands but it remains to be seen whether shoppers can be persuaded to care. By David Burrows. In April 2016 Tesco revamped its fresh produce lines with a series of new… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Best-before-small So far so good for the GCA Comment Foodservice Industry Briefing  news-email Christine Tacon CGA

    So far so good for the GCA

    Many argued that her job should never have existed but Christine Tacon can point to four years well spent as the government’s supply chain watchdog. By Nick Hughes. It is testament to Christine Tacon’s durability that she recently celebrated four… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint shutterstock_338348666-e1528993680813 CAP bans advertising of food & drink products high in fat, salt and sugar Foodservice Industry Briefing

    CAP bans advertising of food & drink products high in fat, salt and sugar

    New restrictions banning the advertising of food and drink products high in fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) in children’s non-broadcast media come into effect on 1 July. The body responsible for writing the UK Advertising Code, the Committee of Advertising… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Unknown-7 What motivates food & farming charities? Foodservice Industry Briefing  news-email Food Ethics Council

    What motivates food & farming charities?

    The Food Ethics Council’s survey of food & farming charities gives food businesses insight into what makes them tick, what holds them back and how the two sectors could work together. Here, the Food Ethics Council highlights five key takeaways… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Unknown-12 Work still to do on farm labour Foodservice Industry Briefing  news-email

    Work still to do on farm labour

    Certification schemes are not yet effective at addressing consumers’ growing fears over exploitation of farmworkers, writes Kerstin Lindgren. Consumers are increasingly concerned by the low pay and poor conditions on many farms. Farmworker justice certification schemes are therefore emerging to… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint F42-Review-6 Insight: Ignoring the hand that feeds us Foodservice Industry Briefing Out of Home News Analysis  prestige Purchasing news-email David Read

    Insight: Ignoring the hand that feeds us

    This week the Prime Minister formally triggered article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. There are two years of Brexit negotiations ahead but “dangerous levels of naivety” have already left the foodservice sector off the pace, says David Read. I’ve been… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint F43-NGT-1 Black and white issue Foodservice Industry Briefing Next Green Thing  news-email milk Free-Range Milk dairy

    Black and white issue

    Farmers have launched a new brand of free-range milk with a distinctive black top. Is it really the next green thing? Free-range milk? All milk is free range, isn’t it? No. More and more cows are being kept inside for… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint F42-Briefing Acrylamide: a hot potato for the EU Foodservice Industry Briefing  Maillard FSA EFSA acrylamide

    Acrylamide: a hot potato for the EU

    Commissioners are trying to untangle a messy situation regarding rules for the food contaminant – and neither industry nor health campaigners are happy. The European Commission wants to introduce new regulations to reduce levels of acrylamide in certain foods. The… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint F41-p14 Embedding Sustainability Foodservice Industry Briefing

    Embedding Sustainability

    Government changes in the wake of Brexit to share responsibility for green issues across multiple departments echo a practice that has been promoted for years in the corporate world, says Tom Idle. All change at Whitehall The UK’s decision to… Read More