Archive for April 2021
UK-EU food and drink trade takes a hit
UK food and drink exports to European Union countries in February fell by just over 40%, year-on-year, according to figures compiled by the Food and Drink Federation. The FDF, which represents food manufacturers throughout the UK, has published its monthly Snapshot for trade in the sector. It shows that, overall, UK food and drink exports…
Read MoreNorwegian farmers appeal ‘traffic light’ ruling
A group of 25 fish farming companies are pressing ahead with their opposition to Norway’s traffic light scheme for regulating aquaculture growth. A month after losing a key district court hearing, they have now taken their arguments to a court of appeal which will consider their case afresh. The district court also handed them a…
Read MoreIntroducing GeneXpertise – for trout breeders
At Xelect, we’ve long believed that the latest technologies should be for the many, not the few. There’s a lingering myth in aquaculture that genetics is expensive, and that only the largest producers can benefit. The reality is that – due to breakthroughs in computing power and sequencing methods – even small companies should now…
Read MoreSalmon Evolution puts brakes on share issue
Salmon Evolution, the company which is developing two large-scale land-based salmon farm sites in Norway and South Korea, has cancelled a further fundraising exercise after its shares dipped below the offer price. Salmon Evolution carried out a successful share issue on Oslo’s Euronext stock exchange, via a private placement share issue at NOK 6.0, raising…
Read MoreFish supplier meets tough safety standard
Grimsby salmon and trout specialist JCS Fish is again celebrating achieving the British Retail Consortium (BRC) Global Standard for Food Safety, despite the complexity and challenge involved in auditing under Covid-19 conditions. The standard is the most widely-used quality assurance standard in food manufacturing and the benchmark applied by all the UK’s major supermarkets to…
Read MoreSalmon prices bounce back after sharp fall
The price of fresh salmon has been bouncing around this weekend, leaving some industry analysts puzzled. According to Statistics Norway, last Wednesday they fell sharply, dropping by more than 6%. The latest data from the organisation showed the average price for fresh salmon in week 15 was NOK 60.99 per kilo, against NOK 65.17 a…
Read MoreRSPCA Assured revamps website
RSPCA Assured, the not-for-profit organisation that monitors the welfare of farmed animals, has launched a new-look website, aimed at boosting consumer awareness of, and trust in the brand. RSPCA Assured audits the welfare conditions of farmed fish as well as livestock on land, through all stages of their lives. A survey carried out for the…
Read MoreWhat’s on your plate?
Trust in the food industry is increasingly linked to verifiability, Sandy Neil reports. It was the biggest food fraud of the 21st century. The horsemeat scandal started to emerge in late 2012, when Ireland’s food safety watchdog bought a box of beef burgers from an Irish branch of Tesco, the UK’s largest supermarket chain. The…
Read MoreCargill appoints new President, Aqua Nutrition
International feed group Cargill has appointed Helene Ziv-Douki as President of its aquaculture business. Ziv-Douki, who joined Cargill in 2003, succeeds Pilar Cruz who was recently promoted to the new post of Chief Sustainability Officer. Ziv-Douki first joined the animal nutrition and health team in 2017 as the risk management and sourcing director for the…
Read MoreBremnes Seashore invests in processing centre
One of Norway’s leading suppliers of farmed salmon is investing around NOK 400m (£35m) in a large new processing centre and cold store. The development will cover an area of 14,000 square metres at the Bremnes Seashore factory at Kvednavikjo in the Bømlo municipality in the south west of the country. The Seashore group said: “It…
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