A new smart container developed by Schenker couples satellite
location technology with radio frequency identification (RFID) to
track the condition of goods along the supply chain.
Italy is in the bad books, while Slovenia is the teacher's pet,
according to European Commission's latest reports on the state
of EU member states food safety regulations.
The European Commission has cleared Nestle's proposed
acquisition of Novartis's Gerber business, saying it would not
lead to an uncompetitive concentration in baby foods and
cereals.
Pending EU recognition of the Melton Mowbray pie as a protected
food has led to a relocation of a major UK manufacturing plant to
the designated region.
New scientific studies do not provide enough evidence for the EU to
amend its ban on the use of growth promoting hormones in cattle,
the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) has concluded.
Milk and cheese products are more than twice as expensive in the
rest of the 27 European countries than in Eastern Europe,
according to a Eurostat report.
In 2006, the price of beverages was on average two and a half
times more in the most expensive EU country than in the
cheapest, according to a Eurostat report.
Private label bakery products continue to hold a strong foothold in
the growing UK market, accounting for 58 per cent of sales by
value, according to a study by Nielsen.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has called on industry
and other groups to submit scientific information as part
of its review on cloned meat.
The European Commission has closed the book on Germany's
controversial bottle deposit scheme, saying changes to the
mandatory return scheme now made it compatible with the EU's trade
rules.
EU legislators yesterday voted in favour of proposals to introduce
a controversial five-stage hierarchy of priority for the bloc's
waste management policy.
With the increasing use of some of their raw materials for the
production of biofuels, snack makers have called on the European
Commission to take measures to ensure they do not face further
price hikes for their supplies.
With the increasing use of some of their raw materials for the
production of biofuels, the foodindustry is calling on the European
Commission to take measures to ensure they do not face further
price hikes for their supplies.
Employee costs are significantly lower in Lithuania, Estonia and
Slovenia, while they are at the highest in Germany, Denmark and
Belgium according to an EU remuneration study by Deloitte Touche
Tohmatsu.
One in six broiler flocks in Germany is infected with salmonella,
according to a pilot survey bythe country's Federal Institute for
Risk Assessment (BfR).
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has launched its consultation
regarding the implementation of EU directives in England on food
additives other than colours and sweeteners and sweeteners for use
in foodstuffs.
There will be no special measures to cover food products from
cloned animals in the EU, member states have agreed, following news
the offspring of a cloned cow was growing up in the UK.
The European Commission has set out interim procedures food
packagers must follow when usingplastic additives, until the bloc
establishes a unified list of authorised materials.
The European Commission plans to review the EU's new hygiene laws
to determine whether further amendments are needed to strengthen
provisions related to meat inspection, gelatine, good food safety
practices and cold stores.
In the second of a two-part series FoodProductionDaily.com examines
the food industry's strategy in lobbying EU legislators during the
upcoming year on environmental policies and international trade
issues.
About 2.3m tonnes of steel packaging were recycled in Europe last
year, representing an average recycling rate of 63 per cent in the
25 EU member states, and an increase of 6 per cent in recycled
tonnage compared to 2004.
EU parliamentarians are expected to vote tomorrow in favour of
compromise legislationregulating the use of chemicals throughout
the bloc, despite opposition from consumer groups over the watering
down of the measures.
EU plans to reduce tariffs on imports of aluminum into the bloc are
likely to have little affect on the regions metallic packagers,
says an industry expert.
Time is running out for producers of specialist, cloth-bound cheese
in the UK as efforts stall in their bid to continue using a
chemical that is banned across the EU.
Central and Eastern European sugar processors are bearing the brunt
of new EU reforms due to dominant Western European companies within
the industry acting in a political and not economic manner, claims
an agricultural expert.
An influential industry body has hit back at a call by
environmental and consumer advocacy groups to put a tax on
disposable and 'hard-to-recycle' packaging.
Sugar processors in the EU are facing further uncertainty over
their futures following the announcement of EU fines for failing to
reduce stockpiling in the declining sector.
Northern Foods has been given five years to switch the
manufacturing of its Melton Mowbray pork pie brand to the East
Midlands, a region traditionally associated with the British
pastie.
All seafood stocks around the world may collapse by 2050 if fishing
continues at its current rate, scientists have warned, piling
intense pressure on industry and governments to handle stocks more
sustainably.
International packaging group Rexam will look to sell its PET
bottle facilities in Central and Eastern Europe as part of its
plans to focus on more globally recognised products like plastic
food packaging.
Restricting the ingredients that could be used to make true vodka
in the EU would likely cause a fresh dispute at the World Trade
Organisation, as EU nations split into three camps.
Ingredients giant Tate & Lyle is considering the sale of its
Food & Industrial Ingredients, Europe (TALFIIE) division, in a
move designed to sharpen its focus on value added ingredients, the
firm announced yesterday.