More than 10,000 new food industry jobs and millions of pounds of new investment will be created by the government-backed Food Enterprise Zones (FEZs), claims environment secretary Elizabeth Truss.
The latest changes to European food labelling could make a mockery of some ‘regional’ food products, if key ingredients are revealed to have been sourced from outside the UK.
All the leading supermarkets, 13 caterers (including McDonald’s), 14 processors/suppliers and eight branded food manufacturers have now signed up to a voluntary code of practice on country of origin labelling (COOL) on pork and pork products.
Northern Foods appears to have exhausted all legal avenues in its challenge to the government-backed application for protected name status for Melton...
During the last few weeks of 2005 there was a flurry of activity in the area of registration of protected designations of origin (PDOs) and protected...