Closing the Skills Gap: Why Passing on Knowledge Matters More Than Ever

Most food manufacturers are talking about recruitment. Finding good people isn’t easy. Vacancies take longer to fill, experienced candidates are harder to find, and everyone is competing for the same talent. But there’s another challenge that’s often overlooked. What happens when years of experience walk out of the door? The food industry has always relied […]

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Why Different Learning Approaches Matter in Food Manufacturing

This year’s Learning at Work Week theme, “Many ways to learn”, highlights something that is especially true across the food industry: people learn in different ways, at different stages of their careers, and in different working environments. In food manufacturing, learning doesn’t only happen in formal training sessions. It happens during audits, production meetings, problem-solving

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Allergen Checklist for food manufacturers

A practical, easy-to-use checklist to help you review your allergen controls and identify potential gaps. Managing food allergens effectively requires consistent control across ingredients, production, labelling, and communication. But in busy manufacturing environments, small gaps can easily occur — and these are often where risks begin. This free checklist has been designed to help food

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It’s National Allergy Awareness Week, so let’s talk food allergens!

Mention the word ‘allergy’ and many people automatically think of hay fever, pet hair or dust mites: of sufferers stocking up on nasal sprays, antihistamine tablets or cleaning furiously. Talk about food allergies and the obvious ones that the general public will recognise are peanuts, milk and gluten/wheat. An allergic reaction occurs when the body’s

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PhD Success for VWA’s Trainer Barbara Bray

Congratulations to our wonderful trainer Barbara Bray MBE for successfully defending her PhD thesis ‘The Healthy Ageing Diet study – modelling a nutritionally adequate diet for older UK adults’. This is the final stage of Barbara’s PhD (known as a Viva), which involves defending your research in front of expert examiners, demonstrating depth of knowledge

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