All British Baker articles in March 2008
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Trend watch
Heavy discounting of everyday bakery products in North American and Western European supermarkets has motivated bakery manufacturers to develop premium products that command better margins - a trend that will help the global bakery market grow to a value of $407bn (£204bn) by 2010.According to a new report on the ...
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NewsStress watch
Here’s something to get the drill sergeant bakery production managers among you excited. This is the Exmocare BT2 watch, designed to measure workers’ physiological data, such as heart rate, location, body temperature, skin temperature and moisture levels. A central database then picks up the transmitted info for analysis, and alerts ...
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Starbucks
has bought US firm The Coffee Equipment company and its Clover Brewing System.The deal will see the US coffee chain install Clover coffee machines, which have a vacuum brewing process and tailored coffee blends, alongside its standard system.The Clover system is better suited to bringing out the flavours of complex ...
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Reporting in
Preservatives in bread are seen by bakers as key in delaying spoilage. But while consumers, the media and retailers generally regard convenience as a good thing, they share a negative perception of preservatives.Yet preservatives achieve the keeping quality we all demand. There have been many attempts to find ’natural’ alternatives ...
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Quote of the week
s, potatoes have iron- Luis Ramirez, a baker in Lima, Peru, where the military has begun eating bread made from potatoes - potato baguettes, braided potato loaves and mini-potato croissants - to combat rocketing wheat prices
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Proof is in the prover
The bakers at the William Saddler bakery in Forfar, Scotland, are a happy bunch, especially since they no longer have to work night shifts. Not only can they enjoy a better social life, but also, they can integrate more fully with their colleagues.Double D Food Engineering didn’t set out to ...
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Legislation watch
From 6 April, 2008, both private and public sector organisations can be held responsible for corporate manslaughter and companies of any size could face an unlimited fine if found guilty.The offence, brought in by the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, will require courts ...
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Grains of truth
Health has long been discussed as a key trend in the bread market, but new research has pinpointed Omega 3 and whole grains as areas with the most potential for the future.Commissioned by ingredients supplier British Bakels, to inform its new product development, the research found that consumers know they ...
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Learning goes online
Fears that decades of baking expertise could be lost to the next gene-ration of bakers, because of a lack of training provision, have prompted the creation of a new online bakery school.Due to be launched at the Baking Industry Exhibition (BIE) on 6-9 April and go live in May, [http://www.thebakeryschool.com] ...
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Getting real
Spring 2008 sees the launch of a brand new four-day food festival in the UK, the Real Food Festival. The event is designed to reflect the focus given to food standards and, in particular, provenance and sustainability in the UK and around the world. Its aim is to bring together ...
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Sultana supplies face short-term shortage
UK bakeries have faced a 15% rise in the price of sultanas over the last two months amid warnings that supplies from Turkey could dry up by early summer - three months before the next harvest.Bulent Ergani, marketing and sales manager at the Tugrul Tarim export company in Turkey, ...
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Fatality explored
A fatal accident enquiry into the death of a bakery forklift driver started last week. Glasgow’s Sheriff’s Court will investigate the causes behind the death of agency driver Graham Meldrum in 2005. He was killed by a truck’s tail-lift as he unloaded bread at the Allied Bakeries factory in Balmore ...
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Weight Watchers to get its just desserts
Greencore has revealed it is planning to launch a range of Weight Watchers branded chilled desserts within the next two months. The products are currently undergoing development in the firm’s cakes and desserts facility in Hull.The desserts will sit alongside Greencore’s Weight Watchers quiches, which have been outperforming sales ...
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A Day in the Life of Tom Shaw
== 8am ==I’m up bright and early this morning and, having successfully avoided the traffic from Northwich, I’m one of the first in the office. I like to get in early as it gives me a chance for some quiet time while I go through my emails, before the rest ...
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Fungus threat to wheat crops
Scientists are currently developing varieties of wheat resistant to a virulent fungus, which has spread from Africa to Iran. The UG99, which began in Uganda in 1999, is a strain of black rust, which can affect 80-90% of wheat crops in these countries.Wafa Khoury, a plant pathologist at the Food ...
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The Worshipful Company
of Bakers held its second annual ladies’ lunch last week presided over by the Master of the Company John Renshaw (centre). Guests included, from left to right, Jill Renshaw; the Lady Mayoress of the City of the London, Theresa Lewis; Dee Cassey, marketing manager of California Raisins and Sylvia Macdonald ...
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NewsCaked nappies
What’s the most unappetising ingredient you could possibly imagine for a cake? Take a straw poll and you’ll end up with a pretty long list before you get to babies’ nappies. As unlikely an invention as it seems, the Nappy Cake is a genuine product that’s available from internet retailer ...
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On cafe culture
Our revered doctor would have something to say about our modern-day fixation with caffeine. Not one for popping down his local Starbucks, or its 19th Century equivalent, listening to this frightening account leads one to believe that he was supping a pretty potent brew. On cafe culture: "Tea ...
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Briefs
n Supermarkets could be made to adopt the traffic light system of food labelling in a deal made between the Department of Health, the Food Standards Agency and the European Union, according to the Daily Telegraph. Public health minister Dawn Primarolo has confirmed it is the government’s favoured option, but ...