NATIONAL FARMERS UNION leader Peter Kendall has seen members endure a miserable 10 months but concerns over food security, prices and sourcing in the wake of the horse meat scandal could offer new opportunities, he tells David Burrows. To travel 600 miles [...]
CONSUMERS ARE being warned of the hidden sugar in some everyday products marketed as being healthier. Ready meals, soups, sauces and yoghurts have all been found to contain high levels of sugar. Manufacturers keen to market products as “low in fat” or [...]
THE HORSE meat scandal has tested the PR teams of UK food companies to the max, but some are faring much better than others according to new research. Tesco’s reputation remains 19% stronger than Findus’ – which is now perceived as “underperforming”. Whilst Tesco’s [...]
THREE OF THE country’s more ethical supermarkets have removed requirements for their suppliers to give poultry only GM-free feed. Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer and The Coop have all announced changes to their policies given that they could no longer guarantee the integrity of GM-free soy. [...]
NOW, WE’RE not suggesting that Philip Clarke reads Footprint, let alone takes investment advice from us. However, the news that Tesco has bought the Giraffe restaurant chain chimed with our analysis last month regarding supermarket cafés. That piece focused on the relationship between the supermarket and [...]
TESCO ANNOUNCES a boost for British farmers as it increased the price it pays its dairy farmers for their milk. The 700 farmers who make up the Tesco Sustainable Dairy Group will now receive the new price of up to 32.77 pence [...]
RETAILERS ARE benefitting from a passion for local food, but some caterers are eyeing the strong and growing market too, Footprint talks to BaxterStorey’s Ian Platt. The government’s green food report took a few by surprise with a recommendation for [...]
HAVE YOU ever been to a Tesco café? The coffee might as well be instant, the food all tastes of beige and don’t even consider using the toilets. Morrisons isn’t much better. TripAdvisor had a review recently for Morrisons café in Wisbech which about sums it up: “Prices acceptable and food and drink OK. Certainly [...]
TESTS ON MEAT products will be made publicly available under a new scheme agreed between food authorities and the food industry yesterday. The decision was taken at a meeting to address how testing can maintain consumer confidence in the accuracy of food labelling; this [...]
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 [...]