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The UK Government is aiming to tackle the scourge of food wasted on farms by committing £15m in funding to help surplus food reach those in need. An estimated 330,000 tonnes of edible food is either wasted or repurposed as… Read More

More than one in five Scots have bought food on social media according to new research that warned of the risk from online sellers who lack the knowledge to produce safe food. The regulator Food Standards Scotland (FSS) studied ready-to-eat… Read More

Developers of new energy-from-waste (EfW) facilities in England will have to demonstrate alignment with the country’s net-zero ambitions in order to gain permission to build additional sites. The UK Government said a tightening of the rules around EfW plants, in… Read More

New EU packaging rules were signed off this week, which will involve changes to labelling, the introduction of new single-use reduction targets and binding reuse targets. At the energy council meeting 25 countries voted in favour of the packaging and packaging… Read More

A fish alternative made from seaweed and upcycled fruit pits are among the innovations to have been awarded prize money to help scale up their concepts in 2025. The duo were among the winners of this year’s ‘Marketed innovation prize’… Read More

Health and environmental groups have joined forces to urge the government to take action on the oversupply of sugar after research found UK production is nearly three times greater than the total needed to meet the entire population’s maximum daily… Read More

The percentage of highly food secure households has dropped from 87% in 2019/20 to 83% in 2022/23, according to the UK Government’s food security report 2024. Indeed, the financial year ending 2023 marks the lowest proportion of households experiencing food security since… Read More

The UK’s biggest fast-food and food-to-go chains have significantly increased the number of outlets situated near to schools during the past ten years prompting calls for greater government restrictions on new openings. Youth activist charity, Bite Back, analysed the store footprints and… Read More

Food imported into Great Britain may pose a greater risk to consumer health than domestically grown produce, according to Pesticide Action Network UK. The most recent testing by the UK government detected 46 pesticides with links to cancer on imported… Read More