With the new year rapidly approaching, we ask members of the meat processing industry to tell us their Christmas wishes and what new developments they’re hoping for the sector in 2024.
Pigs in blankets are the number one nostalgic Christmas food, beating out other holiday classics such as Quality Street and mince pies in a survey of British consumers.
Members of the food manufacturing and food science community have welcomed recent warnings from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) against the consumption of imported eggs.
Growth in the animal protein sector is set to slow in 2024, tightening margins and forcing producers to adapt to a new status quo of higher prices and production costs to sustain success, warned food and agribank Rabobank.
Producers of Welsh lamb are soon to benefit from a new deal landed by Hybu Cig Cymru-Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) to supply meat to the Japanese food service industry.
Graham Wilkinson has been announced as the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board’s (AHDB) new chief executive officer, with the current CEO Tim Rycroft stepping down this December.
Italy’s decision to ban the production and marketing of cultivated meat products threatens innovations, hinders the fight against climate change and reduces customer choice, according to the Good Food Institute Europe (GFIE).
While Ole & Steen is looking for a new group CEO, it has also announced the new appointment of Graham Hollingshead as its UK MD. Meanwhile, Dr Harsh Amin has joined cultivated meat start-up Ivy Farm as its chief scientific officer.
Rising sheep export tonnages and lamb domestic consumer sales paint a positive picture of the UK meat industry, but challenges and inflationary pressures continue to impact on the UK sheep sector in 2023.
Soanes Poultry’s managing director Ben Lee covers how he came into the food sector and the importance of animal welfare at the Yorkshire chicken producer.
Avara Foods’ 2023 Our Planet report has been published and shows strong progress across its environmental agenda, as its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions see reductions tracking far ahead of its SBTi targets.
As demand for meat and poultry continues to grow, Food Manufacture explores what is driving sales of animal-based protein and whether or not the advent of cell-based meat is truly the herald of things to come, or a half-baked pipedream limited by a lack...
Improving the quality of life of pigs could come at the cost of a greater impact to the environment, according to researchers at the University of Copenhagen.
Planned strike action by Irish vets and meat inspectors threatens animal welfare, unsold livestock and mass disruption to the food supply chain, according to the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA).
A routine food hygiene inspection of Douglas Willis butchers at 2 Llanyravon Square, Cwmbran in August 2022, undertaken by Torfaen Council’s Environmental Health Officers, found vacuum packing machine was being used on the premises to package raw and...
The proposed acquisition of Kilhorne Bay by Whitby Seafoods has been abandoned following an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
The alternative protein market is going through a reckoning typical of any major innovation that requires big changes in behaviour – here’s what two experts believe will happen next…
Impending shortages of seafood driven by a rapid increase in demand by 2030 could see the rise of alternatives to popular seafoods, according to research by McKinsey & Company.
A Herefordshire-based retail and catering butcher has landed a £8k fine after a worker was ‘permanently disfigured’ when their hand was caught in a grinding machine.
Food tech firm Extracellular has opened ‘Europe’s largest' contract pilot facility dedicated to cultivated meat and seafood production at its site in Bristol.
Following a £1.4m investment, Multivac’s Swindon site has seen an impressive facelift, with the facility now prepped for regional training and extensive customer demos.
Sainsbury’s has launched a new range of beef with a 25% lower carbon footprint compared to industry standard, reportedly the lowest carbon been ever produced in the UK.
Following the UK’s departure from the EU, the UK’s veterinary sector was hit hard. Now, shortages threaten food safety risks and delays at borders – so what can we do to change this bleak narrative?
A global campaign to help empower women working in the meat industry and foster the involvement of male allies has been launched by Meat Business Women (MBW).
Sonia Guri, lead manager for non-Cryo food applications Europe at Air Products, discusses the use of modified atmosphere packaging in reducing food waste without impacting food quality.
Fish processor Iceland Seafood International (ISI) has agreed to sell its UK business to Danish value-added manufacturer Espersen A/S for an undisclosed sum.
The Government’s delay of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) controls on imports from the EU due to inflationary pressures has been labelled a ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ card by the British Poultry Council (BPC).
Food Manufacture takes a closer look at start-ups specialising in cultivated meat, gut health and reduced sugar products as they seek to address emerging trends.
From the continued growth of the plant-based meat alternatives in a sea of administrations, to the latest innovations in coffee flavours and everything in between, we explore some of the need-to-know trends in the food and drink manufacturing industry....
Producing cell cultured meat could become cheaper and more mainstream, thanks to a new partnership forged to develop a process for rejuvenating the media in which cells are grown in.
