The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has moved to calm consumer anxiety over the level of egg imports from the Netherlands, responding to reports that eggs contaminated…
Month: August 2017
Multinational feed additives producer Nutriad has presented its findings after sponsoring research on natural digestive performance additives. At the 2017 Annual Poultry Science Association (PSA) meeting, which…
With contaminated eggs from Dutch farms hitting the headlines, and research showing strong consumer demand for the use of British eggs in prepared foods, British Lion…
Poultry farmers are being urged to check the temperature of their broiler sheds to avoid a loss of production with ‘UK temperatures on the rise’. According…
Following a series of recent meetings with Tesco, Co-op, Sainsburys, Waitrose, Asda and M&S, the NFU has issued a brief update on retailers’ views on avian influenza. At the start…
By Adam Heppell British authorities have been warned by the European Union that eggs contaminated with the insecticide Fipronil could have entered the UK. Fipronil is…
The NFU poultry team is ‘liaising heavily’ with government, packers, members and the wider industry to get right to the heart of the German and Dutch…
NFU President Meurig Raymond is calling on policy makers to grasp Brexit as an opportunity to enhance the nation’s ability to produce British food. Sunday August…
Discount supermarket chain Aldi is withdrawing all eggs from sale at its more than 4,000 stores in Germany as a precaution, it said on Friday, as…
Aviagen has announced it has signed an agreement to purchase Hubbard Breeders, the broiler genetics division of Groupe Grimaud. The agreement between the two companies was signed…