WITH RAW material prices on the increase and health groups encouraging some food brands to decrease their portion sizes, product shrinkage should be a good thing. Not according to Which? The consumer campaign group has discovered that products are shrinking much more than their [...]
CATERERS, CHEFS and retailers have joined forces in a bid to end hunger in Africa. Sainsbury’s, Compass, The Co-operative and Marks and Spencer are among the initial sponsors of “Food for Good”, a new campaign being run by charity Farm Africa. The businesses will come [...]
FOOD MANUFACTURERS and retailers have announced that they are approaching the limit of whats possible in terms of removing salt from their products. New research, commissioned by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) showed that there are methods to extract [...]
BRITAINS FOUR major food organisations have pledged to the Government that they will not sell pork and pork products from illegal pig farms when the European partial stalls ban is introduced on January 1 next year. The British Retail Consortium, the Food and Drink Federation, the British Hospitality Association and the British Meat [...]
