A FIFTH OF school children think their dinners are not up to scratch. A similar number also say the meals could be healthier and want to see more fruit and salad on menus. However, more than 40% are very happy with their meals – giving them [...]
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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 GOVERNMENT says that more companies in the catering and take-away sectors must commit to cutting salt from their meals. Launching a new drive to cut salt consumption by 25%, public health minister Anna Soubry said the voluntary approach is working, but she wanted [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Latest statements on horsemeat scandal, as of February 13th
By footprint on February 13, 2013
Published in: Comment, News Analysis and tagged 3663, Aramark, Food Standards Agency, FSA, HCA, Hospital Caterers Association, LACA, Local Authority Caterers Association, Sodexo, Tillery Valley.
Note: The Food Standards Agency statement for caterers is available here. ARAMARK statement: “We can’t speak for the catering industry and weren’t present at today’s meeting. From our standpoint, all ARAMARK-authorised suppliers of products containing meat and processed meat have confirmed to us that [...]