THE GOVERNMENT is not doing enough to encourage schools to offer only sustainable fish. And according to marine conservation and health groups this is “threatening the ability of children to feed themselves in the future with heart and brain-healthy fish”. Schools spend £43 million on [...]
FOODSERVICE COMPANIES have reacted to help calm concerned clients and customers following the horsemeat scandals. So far the discovery of horse DNA has been limited to products in the retail supply chain, but foodservice companies assured that checks are underway and double-checks are taking place [...]
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 [...]
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
IT’S SEVEN oclock in the morning and staff are preparing the kitchens for the hungry breakfast crowd. The grill goes on ready for a hard mornings work and wont be shut down until well past midday. Ovens, hobs, dishwashers, fridges and extractors will all be used and will cost the client hundreds or even thousands [...]
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 [...]
SODEXO HAS provided 150 of its client schools across the UK with a years supply of grow-your-own kitchen gardens as an extension to its partnership with supplier of organic vegetable and herb plants, Rocket Gardens. Each recipient school has been sent a Sodexo/Rocket Garden voucher [...]
ARAMARKS CORPORATE responsibility and training director Val Carter has been awarded game changer status by Business in the Community (BITC). BITC, which is celebrating its 30th year of campaigning on responsible business issues, launched the one-off game changers accolade to honour inspirational individuals who have managed [...]
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 [...]