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... eastbourne borough council has rolled out the fsa’s food hygiene rating scheme ... the food hygiene rating scheme helps you choose where to eat out or shop for food by giving you information about the hygiene standards in restaurants, pubs, cafés, takeaways, hotels and other places you eat, as well as in supermarkets and other food shops ... about the scheme the food hygiene rating scheme is run by local authorities in partnership with the fsa ... in areas where the scheme is running, each food business is given a food hygiene rating on a scale from 0 to 5 when it is inspected by a local authority food safety officer ... when you eat out or shop for food, look out for a sticker like the one below, showing you the food hygiene rating for that business ... does your favourite restaurant, takeaway or food shop have good hygiene standards? you can find out at food ... the food hygiene rating scheme is new ... this means not all food businesses with have a hygiene rating yet, but more business are being rated all the time

... the uk food standards agency has invited researchers to come up with innovative approaches to answer key food safety challenges ... the fsa usually issues calls for evidence to address specific research questions, but is piloting a new approach to commissioning research by identifying innovative approaches which may provide significant leaps forward in addressing strategic challenges in the food industry ... the uk agency has identified four key challenges: ensuring imported food is safe to eat, including early identification of emerging risks using novel methods in managing outbreaks of foodborne disease improving compliance of food businesses with food safety laws obtaining better data on costs to industry that will be used to inform agency policies to find out more about the research opportunities, or to tender ideas, the fsa said researchers and industry members need to register as a supplier on its electronic tendering system found here

... the food standards agency is inviting researchers to come up with innovative approaches to answering four key food safety challenges ... four challenges have been identified: ensuring imported food is safe to eat, including early identification of emerging risksusing novel methods in managing outbreaks of foodborne disease improving compliance of food businesses with food safety lawsobtaining better data on costs to industry that will be used to inform agency policies to find out more about these research opportunities, you will need to register as a supplier on the agency’s electronic tendering system at the link below

... unilever refused to comment on city speculation that its food businesses may be up for sale as it announced better-than-expected half-year results yesterday ... analysts at investment bank liberum capital said this week that they expected unilever to sell its food arm, excluding its ice creams and beverages, for an estimated €14bn (£12 ... 17m) unilever owns food brands such as knorr soup, flora spreads, marmite and magnum ice cream ... pablo zuanic and lisa hau from liberum wrote in a note: “we expect unilever at some point to implement a large accretive acquisition in the hpc (household and personal care) space and to partly fund it by selling it’s the food unit (excluding ice cream and beverages) which we estimate can be sold at about one times sales (or €14bn) ... ” sale “highly possible” rollits' food group director julian wild said: “p&g recently exited food with the sale of pringles and i would say a sale of unilever’s food business was highly possible ... although it has a very big food interest you would not regard it as a food company ... ” wild added that he thought unilever would be looking to sell all its food brands in one deal, or else the process would take too long and get messy

... members of the uk food industry, including coca-cola, greencore, heinz, innocent, pepsico, and united biscuits, in addition to the british nutrition foundation, the food and drink federation, together with supermarkets wm morrison, marks and spencer, and tesco, agreed to the new guidelines which aim to help consumers increase their intake of fruit and vegetables ... the guide, published by igd, (which can be found here ) provides a set of principles for businesses to communicate the fruit and vegetable content of composite food products that contribute half, one or more of the five portions consumers are recommended to eat or drink each day ... labelling the number of portions in composite foods helps consumers increase their five-a-day intake and encourages food businesses to add more fruit and vegetables to their products,” said joanne denney-finch, igd chief executive ... “under the auspices of igd a working group consisting of nutritionists from the food industry, trade associations and ngos has agreed these guidelines which help consumers to do just that,” she said ... guidelines as part of the new voluntary code, industry members have agreed limits to the amount of sugar, salt and saturated fat allowed in a composite food labelled as contributing to your five-a-day – a move which they say will to help move consumers towards a healthier and more balanced diet

... the current uk date labelling regime confuses food businesses, increases consumer risk by “diluting key food safety messages” , and costs industry millions of pounds a year ... these are the conclusions of a new report from uk government quango the local better regulation office (lbro), better regulation of ‘use by’ date coded foods: a business view” , which includes the views of prominent businesses and industry associations ... report chairman harold gay said: “the present use by date labelling regime leads to confusion for food businesses, and increases risks for consumers by diluting key food safety messages ... " genuine safety risk the eu food labelling directive 2000/13 provides for a use by date, “in the case of foodstuffs which, from the microbiological point of view, are highly perishable and are therefore likely after a short period to constitute an immediate danger to human health” ... yet the uk food labelling regulations 1996 go further, making it a criminal offence to sell, or offer to sell, food after its use by date ... given that other uk laws make it an offence to sell unsafe food, the report concludes that the 1996 offences are unnecessary and lead to overly cautious industry behaviour ... the report recommends that use by dates should only be used when food is “highly perishable” from a microbiological standpoint, and “likely after a short period to be an immediate danger to health” ... 3m tonnes of uk food waste per year needed to be cut, given its estimated £600m cost to industry ... gay said: “we feel that the waste of so much food every year presents an overwhelming moral cause to take action in its own right ... ” the report calls upon the government to partner industry in developing product-specific guidance on use by dates, to complement forthcoming revised guidance from the department for environment, food and rural affairs (defra) ... sarah appleby, head of enforcement at the food standards agency, said: “use by dates are an important way for consumers to ensure that their food is safe to eat

... rochdale metropolitan borough council has rolled out the fsa’s food hygiene rating scheme ... the food hygiene rating scheme helps you choose where to eat out or shop for food by giving you information about the hygiene standards in restaurants, pubs, cafés, takeaways, hotels and other places you eat, as well as in supermarkets and other food shops ... about the scheme the food hygiene rating scheme is run by local authorities in partnership with the fsa ... in areas where the scheme is running, each food business is given a food hygiene rating on a scale from 0 to 5 when it is inspected by a local authority food safety officer ... when you eat out or shop for food, look out for a sticker like the one below, showing you the food hygiene rating for that business ... does your favourite restaurant, takeaway or food shop have good hygiene standards? you can find out at food ... uk/ratings the food hygiene rating scheme is new ... this means not all food businesses with have a hygiene rating yet, but more business are being rated all the time

... a crisis management network offering a multi-country approach has been launched to tackle global supply chain issues in the food and drink market ... thirteen independent communications agencies have set up the crisis management network to offer support to global food and drink industry players ... recent european food scares include salmonella in eggs and dioxins in animal feed, which lower consumer confidence in the food supply chain and regulatory agencies ... she said: “many food businesses have tried to optimise their business through outsourcing, consolidating suppliers, adopting just-in-time (jit) or lean manufacturing techniques

... the company, which owns a variety of food businesses in australia, set out a target yesterday for its annual like-for-like volumes to rise 3-5% between 2013 and 2017 ... “we expect to achieve like-for-like volume growth of 3% to 5% per annum on a group-wide basis, with our ingredients and flavours businesses targeting 4% to 6% lfl growth (10% in emerging markets) and kerry foods, the group’s consumer foods business, targeting 2% to 3% lfl growth,” chief executive stan mccarthy said

... coli scare in 2006, carl blackburn, food irradiation specialist at the iaea told foodproductiondaily ... the issue has once again raced up the food safety agenda in the aftermath of the deadly outbreak of e ... the technique destroys microbial populations, reduces the need for chemical pesticides and fumigants, and does not impair the flavour of the produce, said the specialist, whose division age is the joint iaea/ fao division for nuclear techniques in food and agriculture ... firstly, he said there is limited capacity, with few irradiation facilities that treat food for the eu market ... in the eu, there are less than 30 food irradiation facilities, he said, with another 10 facilities in non-eu countries which are allowed to irradiate food for the european market ... consumer perceptions the specialist also said that, despite any private enthusiasm for the technique from the european food industry, he felt that no one wanted to be the first to embrace the technology in public ... “eu law requires that irradiated-food is labelled as irradiated or treated with ionising radiation ... ” former efsa chairman professor patrick wall also agreed that consumers remained sceptical about the use of irradiation for food products ... “our anecdotal experience has been that food businesses are reluctant to adopt the technology due to concerns that consumers would choose not to buy their products if they are irradiated,” he told this publication ... “over the past few years, the us has had a number of high profile cases of food poisoning by e ... the future for irradiation despite the potential drawbacks of irradiation as a decontamination technique, blackburn said he was hopeful for the future, as recent advances in food irradiation technology include the development of commercial scale x-ray facilities ... parts of the food industry already use low powered x-rays to detect bone fragments in meat products therefore, the use of more powerful x-ray machines to treat salad might be viewed favourably, said the specialist