Prosper De Mulder Group (PDM) is spearheading a multi-million pound project to roll out anaerobic digestion plants turning food waste into biogas across the UK. (foodmanufacture.co.uk) The first such plant will be built at PDM’s Doncaster headquarters. “If successful, we will build another four in Widnes, Exeter, Hartshill in Nuneaton, and Silvertown in London,” said PDM engineering manager Robert Smith. All gas produced will be fed back into the national... read more →
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) will launch a second wave of saturated fat posters early in 2010, as part of a renewed campaign to reduce saturated fat intake, following a drive to target pastry earlier this summer. (bakeryinfo.co.uk) “We intend to come back to saturated fat as a campaign – probably in January, with poster advertising,” Stephen Airey of the FSA told The Big Bakery Debate on Sat Fats and Calories. He told delegates at the Landmark Hotel... read more →
A new report from Oxford University has found a drop in forecast obesity rates for children in the UK, which the government has interpreted as indicating obesity is “levelling off”. (foodanddrinkeurope.com) The report looked at overweight and obesity levels forecast to 2020, and found current rates to indicate that just 30 per cent of 2 to 11 year olds will be overweight or obese by 2030, compared to the predicted 42 per cent. In boys, a 5 per cent drop... read more →
EFSA has given the first indication of the data it sees as necessary for approval of new flavourings, under the new regulation and common authorisation procedure that came into force this year. At the end of 2008 a clutch of new regulations on food additives, flavourings and enzymes were adopted, together with a common authorisation procedure for these (EC 1331/2008; 1332/2008; 1333/2008; 1334/2008). These entered into force on 20 January this year. The European... read more →
A resource map outlining where and how much meat and fish – as well as it associated packaging – is wasted in the supply chain is to be developed in a bid to cut all three and save cash for industry players. (foodnavigator.com) The Waste and Resource Action Programme (WRAP) and Envirowise are leading the research which will also look to identify the amount of water consumed and disposed of during meat and fish processing. The initiative will measure the... read more →
