Category: Topics
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FSA surveillance has exposed compliance gaps in targeted food samples. Labelling, authenticity, ingredient controls, and substitution remain live risks across UK food supply chains.
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Cocoa reformulation is becoming a sharper technical manufacturing challenge globally. Volatile supply and pricing are forcing deeper work on flavour, texture, viscosity, colour, and labelling.
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Packaging bodies now want clearer PPWR rules for own-brand responsibility. The request could reshape compliance costs, reporting duties, and private-label supply agreements.
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Wintipak is expanding aseptic packaging print capacity in Germany’s Halle. The Heidelberg Boardmaster investment supports faster job changes, lower start-up waste, and higher-volume liquid food packaging.
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GEA has opened its Sarstedt centre for food biotech scale-up. The €4m facility supports pilot development across fermentation, cell cultivation, filtration, separation, and hygienic process design.
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Q2 tested food manufacturers’ exposure to regulation, ingredients, and costs. Distilled examines the deals, packaging rules, reformulation pressure, trade weakness, and safety incidents that shaped production planning.
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Icesupp is recalling selected frozen supplements over a packaging defect. The precautionary recall covers selected mango, passionfruit, and mixed berry packs with best-before dates between May and October 2027.
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Kersia UK has launched BioDtex for rapid hygiene inspection checks. The portable lamp detects organic matter, residue, scale, and surface contamination on equipment, seals, welds, crevices, and uneven production surfaces.
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Pengelly Farms has automated potato case assembly and sealing operations. The Cornwall producer installed Endoline equipment to remove a manual bottleneck around heavy 10kg boxes after upstream grading and loading upgrades.
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Cranswick has automated pigs-in-blankets packing with robotic handling equipment technology. The end-of-line system uses autonox robots and Rockwell Automation controls to place products into packs at up to 240 pieces per minute.