Despite some stakeholders expressing concern about the plans, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) continues looking into a new form of food hygiene regulation for large, national businesses. At a FSA board meeting this week, members were told about the results of a trial in England with Aldi, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, and Waitrose over the past

The L.A. County Department of Public Health is investigating a Mexican restaurant in Valencia following multiple reports of food poisoning arising from dining at the restaurant late last week.  According to Public Health’s media relations division, the department began receiving reports of “gastrointestinal symptoms” on Tuesday after people dined at Madre Oaxacan Restaurant & Mezcaleria. 

In the world of alternative foods, such as cultivated meat and products made from precision fermentation, burgeoning technologies are often developed at a small scale. While great for innovation, in the long-term this won’t achieve what food is really there to do: feed the population. Without being upscaled, new food tech may well change our understanding

Since its popularisation by Dr Atkins​ in the early 1970s, the low-carb diet, or Atkins diet, has been regarded as a fast and easy route to weight loss. And more recently, it’s being used as a way to help manage prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, and other metabolic health conditions.But critics claim this approach to eating

The UK’s biggest trading partner, the EU, dropped near a quarter (23.6%) of volume imports from the territory for the first half of the year compared with H1 2023.Exports to the rest of the world were relatively flat at 0.8% up, though it’s not a patch on those to the EU, which account for 59.4%

Overcoming its challenges by meeting them with new technologies will lead to global dairy sales to stretch from $944bn last year to $1.3tr by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate of near 5%.Plant-based dairy will grow too, though at a fraction of dairy from $12.6bn in 2023 to $26bn at the turn of the

The UK government has now confirmed the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) plans to change the way that key alternative meat products, such as precision fermentation and cultivated meat, are regulated. The changes will be enacted early next year.The timetable for the plans, which also included changes to other regulated products such as food flavourings and

From droughts to flooding, climate change is having a devastating effect on the food and beverage industry. Unfortunately, the industry is also one of the biggest causes of climate change. From carbon emissions in farming to food waste in factories​, the United Nations estimates that around a third of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions is

New research follows an update to the EU Packaging and Packaged Waste Regulation and claims greenhouse gas emissions could be cut by over half if foodservice operators implement a reusable-only policy on their premises.A trial, carried out by waste action group Zero Waste Europe, showed Danish city Aarhus and Berlin, Germany, managed to cut greenhouse

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