All Regulation articles – Page 4
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat’s in new workers’ rights bill and who should be worried?
It’s been hailed as the best news for workers in years, but it’s set to ban a number of industry practices and heap challenges on HR teams
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Analysis & FeaturesAre the police finally taking retail crime seriously?
Retail crime is on the rise, and with it violent and abusive incidents towards shopworkers. Is the Retail Crime Action Plan enough to tackle it?
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Comment & OpinionFood safety Scores on Doors cannot be marked by supermarkets
Supermarkets and large food businesses must not be allowed to mark their own homework. But who will pay?
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Analysis & FeaturesCould EPR spark a new crisis for buyer-supplier relations?
‘Robust’ negotiations over pricing are set to be inflamed further as suppliers reckon with the additional costs generated by looming EPR fees
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NewsEPR: hunt for thousands of ‘freeriders’ trying to piggyback on fees
The announcement of the hunt comes with the deadline for the second set of data for EPR having passed last week
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NewsEUDR delay ‘to cause more deforestation’ as palm oil sector sees land clearing increase
A proposed delay to the EU’s anti-deforestation law could cause deforestation ‘14 times the size of Paris’, claim environmental campaigners
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NewsASA raps Kerry Dairy for Garfield-themed Strings & Things advert
The video-on-demand ad, which aired in May on Channel 4, featured a child jumping into her mum’s shopping bag to eat a packet of Cheestrings
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NewsScores on doors scandal to ‘torpedo’ FSA plans for food safety shake-up
New figures released today by the FSA showed more than 100,000 food premises, many of them supermarkets, were overdue for inspections
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Comment & OpinionFSA hails tipping point as lab grown meat tests approved
FSA bosses found it hard to contain their excitement at the prospect of the UK soon becoming a world leader in the production of lab-grown meat
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Analysis & FeaturesThe battle for the soul of extended producer responsibility
After many delays, rows and u-turns, the government’s EPR scheme is approaching the starting line. But the battle for control of the system rages on
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Analysis & FeaturesIs genetic crop engineering the key to climate-resilient agriculture?
With backing from Labour, precision bred crops could be on their way to UK farms. But the complex issue divides both the industry and the public
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NewsBreakthrough moment for lab grown meat as government backs fast-track testing
The Food Standards Agency revealed today it had received a £1.6m grant from the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology for a new “sandbox” programme
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Comment & OpinionA delay to EUDR is bad news for farmers and suppliers
A year-long wait on deforestation laws will be no benefit to smallholders, says Leo Bottrill, CEO and founder of MapHubs
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NewsVeganuary founder accuses RSPCA Assured of ‘welfare-washing’
Vegan activist Matthew Glover has accused the scheme of ‘welfare-washing’ after he recorded footage showing poor treatment of livestock
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Comment & OpinionFSA’s ‘risk-based’ food inspections are still a long way off
Tthe new programme presents significant challenges including legislative changes, political will and FSA board approval, say Katrina Anderson & Jessica Burt at Mills & Reeve LLP
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NewsNumber of vapers in England who didn’t previously smoke rockets to one million
Around one million adults in England who had never regularly smoked before now vape, most of them on a daily basis, finds UCL study
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NewsOne in four cigarettes smoked in UK now illicit
Findings are according to new data from Marlboro maker Philip Morris International (PMI)
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Comment & OpinionDefra is doing the right thing wrong on EPR
The industry will inevitably be blamed for driving inflation once again, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Comment & OpinionWhy ‘green tax’ isn’t being watered down by Defra
Sunday Times report ahead of second Defra update is misinformed
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NewsNew estimates of EPR costs issued by Defra
In the case of each material, the higher estimated cost has reduced compared with earlier estimates in August