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Is your favourite restaurant a five or a zero?

Love it or loathe it, the festive season will soon be upon us (yep! Less than seven weeks to go!). That said, you might be thinking of booking a table at restaurant for a Christmas meal with family, friends or work colleagues. Restaurants will really go to town to make the most of the period […]

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Monthly news review from Verner Wheelock – October 2014

Welcome to the Verner Wheelock review of October 2014 An international flavour comes to Skipton We were delighted to welcome 12 international delegates to Skipton during October for our annual ‘Creating Savoury Flavours’ course. This unique, lab-based training course was held in the Food Technology facility at Ermysted’s Grammar School which provided the perfect setting for this

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The new food safety threats (including Norovirus & Campylobacter)

Campylobacter is still one of the biggest causes of food poisoning in the UK, claiming on average 110 fatalities per year, not to mention 22,000 hospital admissions from an estimated 460,000 poisoning cases. Of course, as with many other stomach upsets, hundreds of cases go unreported as symptoms are managed at home. Campylobacter bacteria live

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Food safety for charity cake stallholders and Bake Off enthusiasts

Just what is the Great British Bake Off’s secret ingredient? This year’s final attracted an audience of 13 million viewers – an astonishing number when you consider that long-running soap, Coronation Street only attracts around 9 million regular viewers. And it seems that fans of Bake off are not confined to the human race; I read

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Would you eat food from a skip? #foodsafety #Skipchen

In the UK we throw away an estimated 7 million tonnes of food and drink per year. That equates to around £60 per month per family of four. This figure seems especially profligate when there are increasing numbers of people who cannot afford to feed themselves or their families properly; and even more so when

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