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Weekly update for the food and agri sector

Food and Agri weekly news and advertising update for week ending 11 November 2022

A number of food packaging materials are looking to composability claims in an effort to gain premium sustainability and environmental credit from consumers.   However, the detail required for this was recently reviewed by the Advertising Standards Authority. 

Food and Agri Update Friday 28 October - New PM and Cabinet, what does it mean for the food and agri sector? The avian flu support package is launched and a review of ASA adjudications this week, the need to make marketing clear. Finally, looking at food safety and food fraud in the supply chain. A video blog of this is available on LinkedIn via Jessica Burt or the Mills & Reeve Food & Agri Page.

Foods that can make a health claim have a commercial advantage and those consumers suffering menopause symptoms would represent a significant target for marketing. However, there are specific requirements that need to be met outlined in this article.

Making a nutrition claim on your food product is a great marketing tool in these diet and health conscious times; however these claims are strictly applied and enforced. A guide is provided to some of the main pitfalls that may befall a marketer in referencing any nutritional facts about their food product.

All businesses, no matter what size are likely to experience a crisis situation. Make sure you have a plan in place and have stress-tested your working practices so you can survive and thrive.

On World Egg Day, it is essential that free range egg producers are supported in allowing eggs to be marketed as free range even when extended compulsory housing orders are in place for bird flu.

The growth of the gig economy has provided a renewed focus on the division of employment rights between self-employed, workers and employees. Is your food business exposed to the use of agency and contract workers? What is their legal status? 3 key factors to consider

Nuisance is unreasonable interference with another party’s use of land.  Harvest and certain industrial practices always brings out some instances of conflict between the use of land and other's reasonable enjoyment. See this article for a timely revival of our assessment on the different sorts of nuisance and how best to avoid them.

With high numbers and rates of fatal injury, agriculture is one of the riskiest industry sectors for accidents at work. The key message from this article is to identify your risks and address them. Make sure that each aspect of your operation has been risk assessed; that those risk assessments have been acted on; and that they are kept up to date.