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  • Foodservice Footprint F42-Review-10 Millenials drive demand for certified fish Foodservice News and Information Out of Home sector news  Waitrose Wahaca Toby Middleton Tesco Sainsbury's news-email MSC McDonalds Lidl Ikea ecolabel Aldi

    Millenials drive demand for certified fish

    Shoppers’ spend on eco-labelled fish has increased for a fourth year running, according to new research by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). Total spend on seafood carrying the MSC ecolabel in the UK exceeded half a billion pounds (£754m) in… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Fake-Farms Tesco threatened with legal action over fake farms Grocery sector news updates  Woodside Farm Tesco Richard Baugh news-email Jessica Sinclair Taylor Fake Farms

    Tesco threatened with legal action over fake farms

    A food charity is threatening to take Tesco to court over its controversial use of ‘fake farm’ branding on its fresh produce. Feedback is supporting the owner of a real farm called Woodside Farm – a name shared with Tesco’s… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Unknown-34 Give peas a chance Next Green Thing  Tesco PwC Peas Please Co-op BaxterStorey

    Give peas a chance

    The Food Foundation’s new campaign could finally be the spur to get Britain eating more veg, writes Nick Hughes. It’s not often that the entire food sector unites around a single ambition. So hats off to the Food Foundation, whose… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Unknown-34 Future of food safety is in the balance Foodservice Industry Briefing Out of Home News Analysis  Tesco Mitchells & Butlers Julie Barratt Food Standards Agency Food Safety management System Chartered Institute of Environmental Health BRC Global Standards

    Future of food safety is in the balance

    The Food Standards Agency is quietly proposing the most dramatic shake-up of regulations in almost 20 years. Nick Hughes looks at the details. You could be forgiven for not having heard of “Regulating Our Future”.  The document was pushed out… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint F43-Forum Food fraud: the dark side of ethical eating Green Scene  Tesco Red Tractor Prof Chris Elliott NFU Mutual Footprint Premium Food Crime Euromonitor International

    Food fraud: the dark side of ethical eating

    Criminals have seen a chance to profit from the boom in sustainable food and businesses need to take the problem seriously, writes Nick Hughes. It’s an unfortunate paradox of the market economy that as a desirable market prospers a less… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Unknown-37 The robots are coming Features Features Next Green Thing Out of Home News Analysis  Travelodge Tesco Starship Technologies Sodexo robots Ocado McKinsey Global Institute McDelivery KFC Greg Cempla Dean Ward Amazon Go Alex Voica

    The robots are coming

    Machines are replacing people on farms, food factories and McDonald’s restaurants. But fears that they will make humans redundant are overblown, writes Nick Hughes. When self-service kiosks began rolling out to McDonald’s outlets in 2015, staff could have been forgiven… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint F42-Sustainable-diets Labels v taxes: which way to cut carbon? Next Green Thing  UN ENvironment Programme TIFSIP Tesco Sustainable Diets news-email MSC Michael Dickstein Fairtrade Dr Stephen Clune Dr Marco Pringmann COP22 Anne Lykkeskov

    Labels v taxes: which way to cut carbon?

    Politicians need to encourage a shift to sustainable diets in the fight against climate change. The big question is how. What does a kilo of greenhouse gases buy you in the supermarket? Researchers at Lancaster University and RMIT in Melbourne,… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Saddle-burger-e1652354611623 Think like a criminal to beat the food fraud Out of Home News Analysis  VACCP Tony Hines Tesco TACCP news-email Mitchells & Butlers Leatherhead Food HACCP FSA food fraud CIEH

    Think like a criminal to beat the food fraud

    Since the horsemeat scandal, health and safety offences can bring big fines or even prison. Businesses have to be cunning to stay safe, writes Tony Hines. The scandal over undisclosed horsemeat in food products in the UK forced businesses, the… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Pig-injection FSA pledges action after E.coli revelations Grocery sector news updates Out of Home sector news  Waitrose The Food Standards Agency Tesco Sainsbury's news-email Morrisons FSA ESBL Emma Rose Coop ASDA Aldi

    FSA pledges action after E.coli revelations

    The Food Standards agency has vowed to tackle the use of antibiotics in livestock farming after new research found growing levels of resistant E.coli bacteria in supermarket meat. The study commissioned by the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics found that… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint IMG_3362 Cage-free commitments heap pressure on caterers Foodservice News and Information Out of Home sector news  Tesco Subway Spar Sodexo Pret Premier news-email Morrisons McDonalds Londis Lidl Iceland Dr Tracey Jones Compassion in World Farming Budgens Booker ASDA Aldi

    Cage-free commitments heap pressure on caterers

    A flurry of retailer commitments to source cage-free eggs represents a seismic shift for the sector and puts pressure on foodservice operators to follow suit, according to Compassion in World Farming. Major UK supermarkets and convenience chains including Tesco, Aldi,… Read More