Foodservice News and Information

Businesses could save millions of pounds in extended producer responsibility (pEPR) fees by adopting reusable packaging at scale, according to new modelling. Analysis by reuse consultancy GoUnpackaged found that moving to 30% reuse penetration could deliver savings of £136m Read More

Environmental inspectors are to receive more funding to tackle pollution from farms that is driving a decline in water quality. Defra has announced that farm inspections by the Environment Agency will increase by around 50% over the course of this… Read More

Which? is calling for regulators to properly enforce rules on green claims after its research found hundreds of examples of problematic claims including for food products. The consumer organisation used AI software to trawl through more than 20,000 online product… Read More

The Climate Change Committee’s assessment of the Labour Government’s work on reducing greenhouse gas emissions attracted plenty of press this week. “The UK can be proud of our progress in reducing emissions,” said CCC interim chair professor Piers Forster as… Read More

UK oyster populations could grow significantly over the coming decades as they benefit from warming seas across northern Europe. Researchers at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) have modelled how the number and distribution of 19 threatened… Read More

Small food businesses will gain access to intelligence on food fraud as part of a new industry information-sharing initiative. The Food Industry Intelligence Network (fiin) has launched a free-to-access resource hub designed to help small to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) identify and… Read More

The UK economy stands to get a £25bn boost should the government act on the opportunity to kick-start the circular economy. A cross-party group of MPs and peers said that by using resources more efficiently the UK would also become… Read More

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has had its budget cut by 2.7% in the government’s spending review. This is not as bad as farming and nature groups had feared, however. The statement from the government reads:… Read More

Müller has moved to introduce a new payment model in a bid to shore up supply of organic milk. Increased farming costs and fluctuating farmgate milk prices have contributed to organic milk production falling since 2020, with some farmers choosing… Read More