ONLY MACKEREL caught by the best method is given revised ‘fish to eat’ rating by the Marine Conservation Society. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has refined its ratings for mackerel to help consumers better differentiate between the various fisheries involved in catching this once-sustainable seafood favourite. [...]
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HORSE MEAT in school meals, pork in prisoners’ halal pies and a damning verdict on hospital catering have meant a troubled start to 2013 for catering companies. It might be a silly superstition, but 2013 is not turning out well for companies [...]
THE BOSS of Iceland has launched a scathing attack on the catering industry, claiming that they and the local authorities are to blame for the current horse meat crisis. In an interview with the BBC on Sunday, February 17th, Malcolm Walker blamed the “invisible” [...]
ANALYSIS IS urgently being carried out by the meat companies implicated in the investigation by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI), following the discovery that one Tesco beef burger contained 29% horse meat. The pressure is on ingredients suppliers over the traces as the investigation [...]
SODEXO, BRAKES and 3663 are the only three foodservice businesses to appear on a new NFU list of the companies that are paying dairy farmers a fair price. Costa Coffee is the lone High Street food and drink outlet on the list. The NFUs list, [...]
The volcanic ash cloud that sporadically interrupted the smooth flow of our consumerist society provided a brief, semi- apocalyptic vision of a world without air travel, and an apposite one, coinciding as it did with Earth Day on the 22 April. On 21 April the Deepwater Horizon rig blew. Emiliana Silvestri asks what can we learn from catastrophe?
