Latest News in the food Industry

1 Apr 2025

Civil society organisations are calling on policymakers to reject proposed changes to EU sustainability legislation, saying they pose a risk to protections for smallholder farmers.

31 Mar 2025

The UK’s Climate Change Committee is calling for tastier, more affordable plant-based meat offerings as part of measures to counteract the nation’s environmental impact.

26 Mar 2025

Cell-cultivated products (CCPs), from chicken nuggets to beefburgers, could be on UK supermarket shelves by 2027 after regulators launched a sandbox to accelerate approvals.

24 Mar 2025

Egg prices in the US fell sharply in March after supply improved – but risks from avian flu and other market factors keep long-term prices unpredictable.

19 Mar 2025

Seafood is poised to surpass poultry as the leading contributor to global protein supply growth this year, according to Rabobank’s latest protein outlook.

17 Mar 2025

Critics have slammed reports that mandatory Nutri-Score labelling is to be abandoned as “a step back” that puts citizens’ health at risk.

14 Mar 2025

For too long, businesses have treated health and sustainability as separate agendas – but there is growing evidence to show diets that benefit human health can also enhance that of the planet, say experts.

10 Mar 2025

A study into front-of-packaging “health” labelling finds that these labels alone can lower US consumers’ willingness to pay.

7 Mar 2025

The world’s biggest food manufacturers derive just 34% of their sales from healthier products, according to the 2024 Global Access to Nutrition Index.

6 Mar 2025

The proportion of space used to display HFSS foods in UK supermarkets fell following the introduction of regulations restricting the location of product promotions, research shows.

5 Mar 2025

Brands are responding to consumer demand for healthier products by developing classic snacks in smaller portion sizes, meaning fewer calories, lower sodium, and lower fat.

4 Mar 2025

Healthier foods are more than twice as expensive per calorie as less healthy foods, with healthier food increasing in price at twice the rate in the past two years.