WHILE RECYCLING and closing the loop on water and milk bottles is now established in the UK, there is now a huge opportunity to bring this expertise into the foodservice sector. Closed Loop in Australia began by providing a foodservice solution for the Sydney Olympic Games. [...]
A HIGH-PROFILE report on organic food shows sales are down again, but caterers and kids offer rays of light. This year’s report on the state of the organic sector shows there’s life in the organic market yet. After a tough few years as consumers [...]
THE HORSE MEAT scandal highlighted serious problems with the global supply chains that bring food to our plates, but caterers and retailers didn’t help themselves with a lacklustre PR response. They’ll need to do better as the story rumbles on, argues Johnny Pitt of Launch PR. [...]
NO SOONER had the horse meat scandal erupted than the blame game began. ’Twas ever thus. Every scandal needs a villain and there’s no more convenient villain than one that is unidentifiable. And so retailers, the UK government and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) were united [...]
THE GOVERNMENT wants us all to eat less salt. We average about 8.1g a day but the target is to cut it to 6g. There are a number of ways to achieve this. Reformulation is one. Look at any of the top food manufacturers in [...]
WE HAVE to tackle the workforce skills shortage and we have to start right now. Every area is suffering, in both the operator and supply side of our foodservice industry. From the kitchen to engineering, the lack of young skilled professionals coming through to replace an ageing workforce is already becoming critical. Office administration, front [...]
THE NFU has published a poll this morning showing that, wait for it… consumers want more British food in restaurants and supermarkets. According to the poll, 86% of shoppers are “as likely” or “more likely” to want to buy more traceable food that has been [...]
NEXT MONTH the WHOLE WORLD Water Fund is launched. The plan is to bring the world’s hospitality businesses together and raise £1bn a year to improve access to safe and clean water for a billion people. Rich Wolf, co-founder of the Tao Group, explains why he’s already on board. [...]
IN RECENT years, mackerel has been celebrated by chefs and conservationists as healthy, cheap, sustainable and locally caught – the way out of our addiction to cod. We took to it with gusto and before we know it the species has been downgraded from the Marine Conservation Society’s “Good to Eat” list. [...]
Food fight: Is there enough GM-free soya for Britain’s poultry farmers
By footprint on May 7, 2013
Published in: Comment and tagged Carrfour, Food Standards Agency, GM, GM-free soya, GMO, Martin Humphrey, NFU, NFU Poultry Board, Organic, Peter Melchett, Poultry, Soil Association, Waitrose.
THE AVAILABILITY of GM-free feed for poultry has been shrouded in mystery and contradictory information. Recently, four supermarkets ditched policies that had been in place for over a decade requiring suppliers to feed poultry 100% GM-free soya. Will foodservice companies now need to follow suit? Here we ask two experts whether there really is enough [...]