Blog archive

The latest newsletter from the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) has been published featuring the GCA's response to Covid-19 and the 2020 survey results...

Lockdown is beginning to ease and a number of non-essential businesses and their employees and are coming back to the marketplace...

 Food and drink companies invest precious resources in informing and appealing to consumers, making their products the most desirable in a highly competitive and crowded marketplace...

The government has proposed a series of radical reforms to the corporate insolvency regime which will have a significant impact on creditor and supplier rights...

Has your business carried out a specific COVID-19 risk assessment in consultation with their workers or trade unions, to establish what guidelines to put in place?..

The market changes over the last 2 months have been seismic for the food industry...

The RASFF (Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed) seized two illegal shipments of horsemeat in Europe in the last week...

Employers are advised to issue a letter to all staff members for any essential travel for the food supply chain...

A host of new legislation and guidance has come into force over the latter half of March 2020...

The Westminster Food and Nutrition Forum policy conference this week looked at the entirety of the food supply chain from producers through to processors and suppliers, to retailers and restaurants and finally consumers, with expert speakers from every section of the supply chain...

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published guidance to assist food businesses in responding to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak...

The Grocery Code Adjudicator (GCA) has provided the following 4 guiding principles to assist retailers and suppliers deliver continuity of supply to consumers, as far as this remains possible, given significant pressures on staffing and some customer buying habits during the COVID-19 outbreak...