THE GOOD and the great of the foodservice industry gathered yesterday for Footprint Forum hosted by the US Department of Agriculture, opened with great aplomb by Deputy Chief of Mission Barbara Stephenson at the US Embassy in London’s Grosvenor Square. Footprint’s objective [...]
THE INTEREST around genetically modified (GM) crops is continuing to rise with reports that scientists at Rothamsted are mulling over a proposal to apply for permission to replicate its GM trial of wheat plants engineered to repel aphids. Farmers Weekly has revealed that discussions about [...]
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 [...]
HAVE YOU ever been midway through the company’s annual sustainability report and thought: who on earth is going to read this? Well, perhaps you should. “I think we need to think harder about who our audiences are, and who we want them to be,” says Lucinda Hensman, associate director for corporate responsibility and sustainability communications [...]
RESTAURANTS, PUBS and hotels are being encouraged to limit menu choices and introduce flexible portioning as part of a new global campaign to cut food waste. Those in the hospitality sector should also consider introducing staff engagement programmes and food waste audits [...]
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
THE EUROPEAN Commission has published its vision of what a resource efficient Europe will look like: more environmental reporting and fewer resource-intensive products. In a world with growing pressures on resources and the environment, the Commission called for the creation of better market conditions for products and [...]
THE TOP stories of 2012, from Starbucks’ tax travails to rising energy bills and the “greenest Olympics ever”. January/February With the mince pies sitting heavily around the waistline and the influence of festive parties still coursing through the veins, health and diets are rarely far from the headlines in the new year. And so [...]
NESTLE HAS come a long way since that viral in 2010 the one with the bored office worker who bites off a finger of a Kit Kat that turns out to be a bloody orang-utan finger. Campaigners at Greenpeace had found that the company was sourcing from Sinar Mas, an Indonesian supplier that it [...]
Editor’s comment: How much contamination is too much?
By footprint on February 7, 2013
Published in: Comment and tagged 3663, ABP, Burger King, EU, Food Standards Agency, Footprint Forum, Footprint Forum: GM - Contemptible or Inevitable, FSA, GM, Halal Food Authority, Horse DNA, McColgan Quality Foods, pork DNA, Tesco, US Embassy.
IT’S BEEN a tough couple of weeks for the British food industry. First, there was the discovery of horse DNA in burgers supplied by food manufacturer ABP to the likes of Burger King and Tesco. Then pork DNA turned up in halal pastries from McColgan Quality Foods and supplied to prisons through distributor 3663. Islamic [...]