A poultry processor based in Northern Ireland has launched a six-strong range of frozen chicken products, after making a £4.4M investment at its factory in Lisnaskea in county Fermanagh.
Now is the time for meat processors and manufacturers that use British meat in products to be "selling themselves" to the public, as pressure mounts to clamp down on "dishonest food labelling", according to Paul Kelly, md of Kelly...
Foodborne viral infections including Norovirus continue to go largely unreported, with cases far more widespread than official figures indicate, it has emerged.
Incidents of food poisoning associated with Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) are higher among certain groups of people, according to recent findings from the Health Protection Agency (HPA). These include certain ethnic groups, older people and pregnant women...
Pork Farms may slash half of the workforce at its Shaftesbury site in Dorset, following the withdrawal of business by a major customer.A spokeswoman...
Seepex says its new type of progressive cavity pump is saving the UK's poultry processors energy and operating costs.It cites the case of one of the...
Launched this year for today's data-driven poultry processing, the ChickSort system is capable of controlling multiple grading lines at speeds of up...
In times of recession, it pays to back the right horses or seahorses, in this case.Seafish, the UK marketing and research body for the seafood trade,...
Legislative and consumer pressure are coming to bear on the packaging used by industries, including the meat sector. Carina Perkins looks at the most recent efforts made to tackle packaging and food waste
Premium sausages have been an industry success story over the past few years. Sales in the sector continue to see double-digit growth year-after-year - and certainly show no signs of slowing down.
Three meat processors in Ireland have invested in the latest food processing and cooking equipment from Interfood Technology. McCaughey Foods, Brady...
Union Food Machinery and Equipment has launched a high-speed sausage cutter. The WT05 cutter can process 1.85m of sausage per second, in any casing,...
Meat supplier, Chitty Food Group, has secured a contract to supply 28 pre-packed British beef, pork and lamb lines into Nisa-Today's, the independent...
Britain's meat processors are consolidating in the face of a tough business environment. Rick Pendrous reports on an industry adapting to greater international competition and some difficult regulatory issues
