Waste Reduction through Innovation
11th Jul 2008 by Alex Briggs
UK’s Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) have invited food manufacturers to take part in a project aimed at waste reduction through innovation in food packaging technology.
The management systems community
11th Jul 2008 by Alex Briggs
UK’s Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) have invited food manufacturers to take part in a project aimed at waste reduction through innovation in food packaging technology.
10th Jul 2008 by Alex Briggs
The US Department of Health and Human Services announced a two part pilot project to help improve food safety.
8th Jul 2008 by Alex Briggs
In the UK we throw away 6.7 million tonnes of food every year, roughly a third of everything we buy.
This ground-breaking report was launched on 8 May 2008.
It provides, for the first time, an objective assessment of the amounts and types of food we buy but don’t eat.
It is a call to action for government, retailers, food manufacturers, NGOs and all of us, in our role as consumers, to reduce the food we waste.
8th Jul 2008 by Alex Briggs
This report, commissioned by Unipart Logistics, aims to deepen the understanding of consumer supply chain drivers, logistics models and improvement initiatives.
22nd Apr 2008 by Alex Briggs
CNN reported today that Gordon Brown, the UK Prime Minister, has stated that the crisis resulting from rising food prices is as strong a threat to world prosperity as the credit crunch crisis.
“Tackling hunger is a moral challenge to each of us and it is also a threat to the political and economic stability of nations,” he stated.
14th Jan 2008 by Alex Briggs
Organic or fairtrade? Sustainable or certified? With so many labels on food, clothes and white goods, it’s a miracle that we make it to the checkout before closing time. This article in the Observer takes a look at some of the labels out there. Which ones live up to their eco credentials?
24th Sep 2007 by Alex Briggs
This Times article has raised a difficult topic for organic farmers.
The article reveals that Helen Browning, the director of food and farming at the Soil Association, sends pig shoulders from Wiltshire, England to Germany for processing into sausages and imports pork loins from Sweden to make bacon.
17th Sep 2007
Sainsbury’s announced they are withdrawing certain packs of breakfast cereals due to small insects in the packages.
30th Aug 2007
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