food standards

Bill Young brings 'extensive experience' in agricultural quality assurance, having previously held leadership roles at NSF and SAI Global

Many farmers want to see a ‘fundamental change' in Red Tractor and will be ‘suspicious' of the assurance body's attempt of ‘papering over the cracks' with enhanced communication efforts

Red Tractor chief executive Jim Moseley told researchers at the Social Market Foundation they ‘should leave their desks' and join him at an assured farm ‘to see how the scheme really works' and the hard work the UK's farming community puts in

The supermarket has also introduced new stocking density requirements for its fresh chickens, aimed at improving their quality life

Since its implementation in 2021, the ATQ has permitted 260,000 tonnes of raw cane sugar each year to enter the UK tariff free, regardless of origin

With sustainable food production in focus across the world, FG's chief reporter Rachael Brown heard from agri-tech leaders on the future of farming at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit

NFU president Tom Bradshaw said while the NFU response to the UK farm assurance review covers ‘some of the benefits' that assurance schemes offer, it also explains the ‘inescapable issues' that must be addressed

FSA charges are currently discounted according to the number of hours involved so that smaller abattoir businesses, which require fewer hours regulation, receive a greater discount

NFU president Tom Bradshaw said the union's response covers ‘some of the benefits' which farm assurance schemes provides, but it also covers the ‘inescapable issues' that must be addressed

Proposals to standardise and simplify packaging information so food produced to the highest standards is consistently labelled