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SMP’s criticise Brakes and Sodexo over horse meat info

By footprint on March 14, 2013
Published in: Foodservice News, News and tagged Brakes, Claire Baker, Food Standards Agency, Footprint, Horse DNA, Horsemeat, HOuse of Commons, Scottish MEP, Scottish Parliament, Sodexo, Tavish Scott.

SCOTTISH POLITICIANS have criticised catering companies Brakes and Sodexo for their failure to publicise information about who supplied them with products contaminated with horse meat. In a national food policy debate in Scottish Parliament this week, attention turned to the horse meat scandal. Lib [...]

Glasgow restaurants form waste collection cooperative

By footprint on May 22, 2012
Published in: Foodservice News, News, Zeitgeist and tagged Cooperative Development Scotland, Glasgow Restaurant Association, Resource Recovery Co-operative, Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Parliament, Waste (Scotland) Regulations, Zero Waste Scotland.

OVER 80 RESTAURANTS in Glasgow are working together in a new cooperative to help cut food waste and costs. The pilot project will help the businesses meet new waste regulations in Scotland. Funded by Zero Waste Scotland, Scottish Enterprise and Cooperative Development Scotland, the Glasgow [...]