REPRESENTATIVES FROM the whole foodservice supply chain gathered yesterday at a summit to discuss the challenges faced by the industry in driving forward the nutrition, health and wellness agenda. The industry summit, the first with a whole supply chain focus, headed by [...]
ACCORDING TO dubious research cooked up for a marketing campaign a few years ago the third Monday of January deserves the title of “Blue Monday”. That’s when people are at their most miserable, thanks to a combination of post-Christmas blues, cold dark nights and the arrival of unpaid credit card bills. This year it fell on [...]
LEADING PERSONALITIES from the foodservice and hospitality industries, including the likes of Raymond Blanc OBE, LACA’s Anne Bull and Westminster Kingsway’s Gary Hunter, teamed-up with health and nutrition expert Dr Susan Jebb and Sodexo Health Ambassador Matt Dawson MBE to recognise healthy best practice within foodservice. The high profile judging panel this afternoon rewarded those [...]
THE CHIEF executive of CH&Co’s business and industry arm talks about the company’s new sustainability strategy and the ‘quirky things’ her chefs have achieved with cakes. David Burrows (DB): Good morning Caroline. Thanks for coming along and being the first person to join me on [...]
LEADING PERSONALITIES from the foodservice and hospitality industries, including the likes of Raymond Blanc OBE, LACA’s Anne Bull and Westminster Kingsway’s Gary Hunter, teamed-up with health and nutrition expert Dr Susan Jebb and Sodexo Health Ambassador Matt Dawson MBE to recognise healthy best practice within foodservice. The high profile judging panel this afternoon rewarded those [...]
Watch the film about Footprint Forum: Mood Food. Speakers included Matt Dawson MBE courtesy of Sodexo, Oxford University’s Prof John Stein, Amanda Ursell courtesy of CH&Co, Vielife’s Jessica Colling, Felicity Yardy of Innocent, Lexington’s David Steel and Sue Gatenby of Pepsico. Join Footprint Forum
ARAMARK WILL be helping its customers stick with their New Year’s resolutions with a new health campaign launched January 8th, 2013. Entitled Eat Yourself Healthy, the campaign includes special offers and meal deals to make it easy for people to eat more healthily. [...]
A NUMBER of organisations sufficiently advanced in the health, nutrition and vitality arena will be rewarded for their efforts with recognition in the first-ever Health & Vitality Honours a brand new scheme specially created to establish a platform for foodservice businesses to showcase healthy best practice. [...]
ORGANISATIONS FROM across the foodservice supply chain form The Roll of Honour for the inaugural Health & Vitality Honours scheme announced today. Caterers from the private and public sectors, manufacturers and suppliers – both global and niche – and representatives from the take out and independent hospitality [...]
FootprintComment: A wake up call for traceability and accountability in the supply chain
By footprint on January 16, 2013
Published in: Comment, News Analysis and tagged Amanda Ursell, Horse meat, traceability.
THE RUMPUS generated by the ‘horse-burger’ debate is understandable says Amanda Ursell. People have a right to expect to have ingredients in their food, which are listed on the label. When this doesn’t happen, and the ‘extra’ ingredient happens to be something, which in the UK at least, could be described as an emotive food [...]