Blog archive

The Grocery Code Adjudicator (GCA) published their report into the investigation of the Co-operative Group Limited (Co-op) on 25 March...

The importance of compliance and cooperation with the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in any investigation and/or enforcement was underlined by the penalty imposed on Asia Poultry & Meat Ltd earlier this month...

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published guidance with templates on withdrawal and recall for unsafe food, as well as information on...

18 months ago we discussed the administration of Wellgrain Limited, a large grain merchant based in the East of England which collapsed owing creditors in excess of £15,000,000...

The long awaited consultation on the provision of information on allergens on prepacked food prepared for direct sale on food business premises was published on 25 January by Defra...

In its’ recent ruling on Red Bull the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld a complaint that an advert promoting the ‘4pm Finish’; for workers to leave one hour early on Friday 14 September 2018, implied a relationship between the drink and health...

Brexit, the UK leaving the EU, will take place in just over 100 days, unless the decision is withdrawn or the period is unanimously extended...

Keith Davidson at Mills & Reeve and Colin Morgan at ADAS (part of RSK) look at the emerging EU and UK strategies on curbing plastic waste, the proposed ban on single-use plastics  and the implications for the food industry...

All of these regulations and guidance are made in order to ensure that existing rules will continue to be operable in England after the UK leaves the EU...

The environment and health are key drivers that have emerged from 2018 and will be the unique selling points that food businesses will need to push with their products in 2019; underlying both is the rise of the individual, particularly in the younger generations...

HFSS products are food and soft drink products that are high in fat, salt or sugar as identified using nutrient profiling...

The Department of the Environment, Fisheries and Rural Affairs (Defra) has published a consultation on the Nutrition (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018...