Premier Foods divestment shows its desperate plight
Premier Foods’ sale of its ethnic flour business Elephant Atta for £34m was a sign of how desperate it was to right its balance sheet, according to market commentators.
Archives for July 5, 2012
Trade groups fear EFSA fee proposals
Trade groups fear administration fees for services proposed by the European Food Standards Agency (EFSA) could hit small to medium-sized food manufacturers and supplement firms hard.
Russia restricts imports of pork from US and Canadian plants
Russia has banned the import of pork from two US and Canadian meat companies after the antibiotics tetracycline was detected in the meat. The ban came into effect on 3 July.
‘Unacceptable, impossible, unsustainable’ - The sorry state of UK milk pricing
We like that cheap white stuff on our cereal. Milk has always been a loss leader in UK supermarkets for years now. Everyone knows it: The farmers, the processors, the retailers, even the cows…
EFSA review reconfirms no safety concerns over food from cloned animals
Foods derived from cloned animals or their offspring show no signs of being any different or posing safety concerns compared to products from conventional sources, said the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in its latest review that echoed previous...
Packaging highlighted as increasing source of Halal food contamination
Packaging is a growing source of porcine contamination for Halal foods as result of animal fat-based lubricants used in production of some paper-based materials leaching into products, a laboratory test company has said.