£2M for research to protect British strawberries
As Wimbledon reaches its peak this weekend, British scientists are preparing to battle to ensure the tournament classic of strawberries and cream stays on the menu for years to come with a £2M project to research strawberry disease. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) will fund nearly £800,000 of the five-year project into […]
Expansion of Centre’s activity brings gains through partnership
Since its launch in 2011 with seed-funding from food retailer Waitrose, the centre now includes: Aberystwyth University’s Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS); NIAB TAG; Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute of Northern Ireland (AFBI); Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and Harper Adams University. CEUKF delivers briefings and news item for the partners and their projects […]
Meat from TB infected cattle – government TB management system failing ‘from farm to fork’ says wildlife charity
Meat from more than 20,000 cattle per year infected with bovine TB (bTB) has been allowed into the food chain by the government, posing an unnecessary risk to human health, according to a report in the Sunday Times yesterday. Acting on information given to a journalist by Care for the Wild, the newspaper has revealed […]
EDA considers UK front-of-pack nutrition labelling scheme as inadequate and misleading
This system combines colourcoding with percentage reference intakes of the mandatory nutrients required by the Food Information to consumers Regulation (FIR). EDA believes this national scheme is inadequate, because it is in contrast with the EU’s aim to harmonize food information to consumers. Its use of color coding is misleading because it doesn’t recognize the nutritional contribution of whole […]
LEAF receives global recognition from ISEAL
Becoming an associate member of ISEAL recognises that LEAF is committed to embracing credible practices, such as transparency and accountability, and improving with like-minded peers in its efforts to deliver sustainable farming on a global scale through the LEAF Marque assurance scheme. Associate membership is an important step to gaining full membership in ISEAL and […]
Paterson right on GM, says CLA
GM crops: The Association said the potential benefits of GM are huge with the UK being the natural home for GM research. However, scare tactics and misinformation has meant that the issue has lost scientific objectivity and become political. CLA President Harry Cotterell said: “GM crops aren’t the only solution to food shortages but technological innovation […]
Research bodies form new alliance to address global challenge on food
The vision is to build an alliance of excellence which brings together researchers from different disciplines to tackle the challenges of sustainable food production, the depletion of natural resources including productive land, water and nutrients, and the impacts of climate change on society. The Scottish Food Security Alliance – Crops draws together expertise from three […]
Fodder celebrates fourth birthday
Since its inception, Fodder has grown from strength to strength and now sells produce from over 350 local farmers and suppliers. Managing Director, Heather Parry said “Fodder is one of the initiatives that the Yorkshire Agricultural Society has launched to help improve farming in our region. Fodder was created to champion and sell the very […]
Waste food campaign poses disease threat warns National Pig Association
National Pig Association has warned that recycling human food by feeding it to pigs must take place only under strictly-controlled conditions, otherwise there is a risk of outbreaks of notifiable diseases, such as foot-and-mouth, classical swine fever and African swine fever. These highly infectious diseases, which can be introduced to Britain in infected meat — […]
