The Border Target Operating Model (BTOM), the first stage of which came into force on 31 January, will have a significant impact on how the EU trades with Great Britain. Over three stages throughout 2024, new checks and declarations will be required for...
The Berwick-upon-Tweed based cereal processing company has joined DEFRA’s Countryside Stewardship Mid-Tier scheme through its parent company H O Short & Sons Limited.
According to Campaign coordinator Chris Young, the current regulations ‘are not fit for purpose, do not support small bakery owners and do not protect shoppers adequately’, allowing a raft of what it calls ‘sourfaux’ to be marketed as sourdough and sold...
The Real Bread Campaign is calling on bakers, retailers, caterers and passionate bread advocates to underscore its mission to get Defra to consider its Honest Crust Act, as well as to consider everyone in the upcoming month-long ‘bread for all’ event.
The Real Bread Campaign is questioning the use of wholemeal in a number ‘half and half’ product names and the marketing by several leading UK bread manufacturers and retailers.
The Campaign has ramped up its efforts to lobby for an Honest Crust Act to enforce loaf labelling and marketing legislation in the UK and has sent Defra its motivation outlining ‘the case for a legal definition of sourdough bread’.
Scientists from Rothamsted Research – the longest-running agricultural research institute in the world – have used genome editing to develop a type of wheat that is less likely to produce acrylamide when baked.
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Victoria Prentis said the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is currently not considering the inclusion of sourdough or wholegrain definitions in the Bread and Flour Regulations.
Defra has published an update to information on labelling of food products for sale in the UK and the EU, applicable once the Brexit transition period comes to an end.
The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has ratified a new law following the well-publicized death of a teenager from anaphylactic shock from an undeclared ingredient on a Pret a Manger baguette.
A letter from Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to the Real Bread Campaign – which has been lobbying for the Honest Crust Act – stated that Defra will look into the bread and flour regulations once the UK...
UK bakery Huffkins has finalized its first significant export contract to Japan, with more orders to Australia, Canada and Switzerland already secured well into 2019.
Data published by the UK government today gives a glimpse into the eating habits of 150,000 UK households from 1974 to 2014, revealing a nation that is increasingly health conscious – as it gets increasingly fat.
Consumers do not seem to consider environmental and sustainability
issues when purchasing food and drink, according to a UK government
study released today.
A fraud involving millions of imported caged or barn eggs sold in
the UK as free range and organic could cause significant damage to
the British industry if not resolved.
Although beef farmers in England are keen to bring their farms into
line with new environmental regulations, some are fearful that this
requirement could jeopardise their economic future, according to
the National Beef Association...
As if the major droughts in Europe, low world wheat stocks and
further speculation that China is importing large amounts of raw
materials wasn't enough to fuel further debate over rising flour
prices, Defra have reported a mistake...