The Government’s plan to introduce mandatory CCTV in all slaughterhouses in England is a huge win for animal health and welfare, following years of campaigning by…
Month: August 2017
The British Free Range Egg Producers Association is calling on retailers to change their egg sourcing policies after 700,000 contaminated Dutch eggs made it in to…
European health commissioner, Vytenis Andriukaitis, has announced plans for an emergency meeting of EU ministers over the contaminated eggs issue which has dominated news headlines throughout…
The British Free Range Egg Producers Association is calling on retailers to change their egg sourcing policies after 700,000 contaminated Dutch eggs made it in to…
British egg processors have criticised the buying policies of the UK’s major supermarkets after several of them have been forced to withdraw products from sale because…
The government has announced proposals to make CCTV compulsory in all abattoirs. The proposals mean that Official Vets, who are present at abattoirs, will have unrestricted…
The Food Standards Agency said today up to 700,000 eggs contaminated with the insecticide Fibronil may have reached the UK, a significant increase on the FSA’s…
Tesco is to extend the policy announced by all major retailers in the UK to stop selling eggs from caged hens by 2025 to include its stores across…
Aviagen’s slower-growing breed, the Ranger Gold, has been awarded full accreditation by the German animal protection organisation Tierschutzlabel, Deutscher Tierschutzbund e.V. (DTSchB). “We are currently seeing…
The UK’s food-to-go sector will be worth £23.5bn by 2022, up from its current value of £17.4bn, according to IGD, the food and grocery market research…