All Meat articles – Page 192
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common agricultural policY
Welcome for weakening of link between livestock numbers and subsidy income CAP reform set to lead to heavier role for imports More plentiful beef from South America, Australasia and Africa is one significant implication for the UK suggested by...
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Scare could aid red meat
BSE still makes a good scare story for the British media, as demonstrated on Monday by The Guardian's extensive coverage of the controversy over the use of hydrolysed beef proteins in poultry products, but the major practical implications for...
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MLC looks to post-devolution
The Meat and Livestock Commission has reacted to suggestions that it is a spent force by proposing new bodies to promote the lamb, beef and pig sectors in England while advocating an overarching co-ordinating British role for itself, ensuring...
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Major pigmeat and lamb supplier Glanbia has demonstrated its
It is shifting emphasis from the carcase side to a wide variety of convenience cuts and portions with coatings, sauces and marinades. And many of its key lines are centred on the barbecue. Whether indoor or outdoor, barbie style foods are now...
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UK retail sales of bacon rashers were buoyant in the first q
New data provided to the DMB by Taylor Nelson Sofres shows sales up 3% by volume and 3% by value in the 12 weeks to March 31. For the 52 weeks to the end of March, total rasher sales were up 0.5% by volume and 11% by value. ...
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Congestion and elusive stock add up to week of headaches
Hunt the product was a game giving our shoppers the biggest headache this week. At Asda bacon was on offer but the shelf where it should have been was bare. By a sheer fluke, our shopper spotted a whole stack in a completely different area where...
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Asda impresses at Eastlands and it also comes in cheapest
The new Asda at Eastlands certainly won over our shopper this week. It supplied the cheapest full basket at £37.20 and would have been 20p cheaper if its regular eight-rasher pack of bacon had been stocked. Inside an amazing range of food and non...
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TABLE TALK
Backing Britain seems to be the right thing to do at the moment, especially with the French cancer that is eating into our beef industry. Of all the major high street retailers, Marks and Spencer in my mind conjures up everything British. And yet...
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Dumeco doubles earnings
Leading European meat supplier Dumeco has warned that the entire pork production sector in the Netherlands is faced with increasing overcapacity due to further falls in the number of pigs. Reporting a doubling of pre-tax earnings to 164.4m...
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Bogof's week
The National Farmers' Union gave journalists attending its press conference in London this week a firm dose of motherly love. As we arrived for the mid-morning session, president Ben Gill was on hand with a silver salver of bacon sandwiches. Not a...
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Bites: McNeil Consumer Nutritionals; Kraft Foods' Dairylea Lunchables; Aero Snow
McNeil Consumer Nutritionals is adding a reduced fat olive oil spread to its Benecol portfolio and replacing the cream cheese spreads with lower fat versions. Two pizza variants - ham and cheese and pepperoni and cheese - have joined Kraft Foods'...
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M&S takes top meat prize
Marks and Spencer scooped the top prize at this year's British Meat Awards for its perfect roast lamb'. It walked off with the Product of Excellence award after the product took first prize in the lamb category. The prize for beef product of the...
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When producers claim a proposed official course of action is
Yet it is hard for them to dispute the National Beef Association's call to delay implementing the tightening of the Farm Assured British Beef and Lamb regime to prevent finished cattle becoming scarce and more expensive. The change would require...
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meat marketing
Closer co-operation needed between farmers, processors and retailers More scope to develop English regional brands Fresh initiatives to develop English regional brands of beef have been called for by Kevin Hawkins, Safeway's director of...
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scotch premier
Building the Highland Lamb premium Aberdeenshire based Scotch Premier Meat is now offering lamb under the Highland Lamb brand to complement its well established Scotch Premier branded beef. The move follows the purchase of the Grants of Dornoch...
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Chicken fillets injected with beef and pig proteins
Chicken fillets imported into the Irish Republic from the Netherlands had been injected with beef and pig protein, a probe has established. The Irish Food Safety Authority found animal DNA in 17 out of 30 samples. The fillets had also been...
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Roles for both Scotch and British
Sir; I was interested to read recent articles about branding in the agri-food sector, including a call for an all-Britain brand and concern about fragmentation. There's a great deal of passion in Scotland about the Scotch beef brand, but it's not a...
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BRITISH PORK AND BACON
Fully costed 13-point action plan over five years looks to greater competitiveness BPEX unveils a recovery plan for British pigmeat A recovery strategy for the British pig industry was unveiled by the British Pig Executive last week at the...
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the food chain
Most serious attempt so far to solve supply chain problems Safeway builds regional with Northumbria line Safeway has launched another regional lamb promotion, aiming to match the success of its West Country brand which went into stores last month....