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Product NewsSpeakers and topics for FOB conference announced
Health, the economy and food safety are to be the key themes of this year’s Federation of Bakers conference.
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Bakery manufacturers commit to reducing plastic
Allied Bakeries, Premier Foods and Speedibake are among 42 business to sign up to the UK Plastics Pact, a collaboration to tackle plastic waste.
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Tunnocks ad ruled ‘socially irresponsible’
An advert for Tunnocks Tea Cake featuring a female tennis player has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), following a single complaint that it was ‘offensive’.
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Federation of Bakers and Hovis sign up to Courtauld Commitment 2025
The Federation of Bakers, Hovis and the Real Bread Campaign are among the latest organisations to sign up to Courtauld 2025.
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Food Hygiene Rating delivers tangible benefits, says FSA science adviser
The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme has driven up standards, according to the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) chief scientific adviser.
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EU introducing legislation on acrylamide reduction
Food businesses must put in place steps to manage acrylamide under EU laws that go into force next year.
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WRAP releases guidance on bread labelling to help tackle food waste
The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has released best practice guidance designed to clear up confusion around food labelling, which can lead to food being wasted.
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Bakers Basco boosts GPS technology to prevent equipment misuse
Bakers Basco has stepped up its equipment security with the launch of its latest GPS tracking chips across its bread baskets.
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Allied Bakeries staff vote in favour of strike action
Drivers and other workers at Allied Bakeries’ West Bromwich site have voted to take strike action in a row over pay.
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EU plans too late for many workers, warn trade bosses
Industry bosses have welcomed government plans to allow EU citizens to stay in the UK – but point out that many workers have already left the country.
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Former bakery boss disqualified from running a business for five years
A former director of The Royal William Bakery in Plymouth has been disqualified from running a business for the next five years after failing to pay more than £130k in tax bills.
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Asda fined £700k after health inspectors find live mouse on baking tray
Asda has been fined £700,000 after Environmental Health Officers found mice droppings and a live mouse at the bakery in its Bromborough store.
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Fipronil scandal: now trade cake mixes are withdrawn
Trade packs of cake mixes from suppliers including Domson and Bako have been withdrawn over fears they may be contaminated with fipronil.
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Fipronil scandal: Cocovite egg products withdrawn
Certain batches of liquid egg products have been withdrawn in a further escalation of the fipronil contamination scandal.
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Windmill Bakery director given suspended jail sentence
A director of Coventry-based Windmill Bakery risks going to prison if he continues to breach an injunction to not use Bakers Basco’s bread baskets.
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Warburtons fined £1.9m following bread line injury
Warburtons has been fined £1.9m after a worker trapped his arm in a running conveyor belt.
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Drapers Bakery hit by hefty bill in bread baskets misuse case
Tewkesbury-based Drapers Bakery has been ordered to pay £5,500 in costs and damages following persistent misuse of Bakers Basco bread baskets.
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New sugar reduction course announced
Sugar Reduction In Foods is a new course from Chipping Campden-based Campden BRI, taking place on 31 October at its Gloucestershire centre.
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What was the UK’s most recalled bakery item in 2016?
New research from pest control experts Rentokil has examined the cost of product recalls to the bakery industry, and how they can be avoided.
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Former bakery staff awarded £40,000 at employment tribunal
Five former employees of a Staffordshire bakery business that ceased trading last year have been awarded more than £40,000 by an employment tribunal.
