UK food manufacturing developments, filtered through an engineering lens. AFME separates consequential change from industry noise and explains what it means operationally.
New recyclability classifications will make red-rated flexible packaging more expensive under Packaging EPR, increasing pressure for material substitutions that must be validated on food-production lines.
Read intelligence →Danone has joined earlier Coca-Cola and Nestlé commitments to clarify environmental wording on plastic bottles in the European market.
Read →SuperValu and Centra recalled named smoked-salmon and prawn products after Listeria detection; the source does not identify an engineering cause.
Read →DEFRA has published a marketing notice concerning the precision-bred status of a non-browning banana developed by Tropic. The regulatory milestone does not yet authorise…
Read →Dairy UK is calling for dairy processing to be recognised as Critical National Infrastructure, arguing that the sector's utilities, cyber systems and processing capacity…
Read →UKHSA's latest update reports further growth in three Salmonella Enteritidis clusters linked by current evidence to imported eggs, increasing scrutiny of supplier assurance and…
Read →Samworth Brothers was fined £594,000 after an employee and contractor were scalded during steam-pipe maintenance at Kettleby Foods, reinforcing the need to prove isolation…
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