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The best excuse to eat chocolate… ever… #chocolateweek

Most people don’t need an excuse to eat chocolate….I’m salivating just thinking about a big piece of gooey chocolate cake…. but if you generally try to resist temptation, throw all caution to the wind and indulge yourself because it’s Chocolate Week this week! (14th to 20th October.) Yes, seven full days devoted to the delicious […]

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Is your Food Hygiene Rating up to scratch?

From November this year it will be mandatory for the 23,000 food outlets in Wales to display their Food Hygiene Rating Scheme sticker. The scheme, which replaced the old ‘Scores on the Doors’ system in 2012, awards a hygiene rating of zero (urgent improvement needed) to 5 (very good) to food businesses in England, Wales

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I’ll have the chicken, with a side order of Campylobacter

The general public certainly seem to know about E.coli and Salmonella (remember Edwina Currie with her eggs scare?) but how many people would be able to name Campylobacter as a source of food poisoning? Nevertheless this spiral-shaped bacterium, which penetrates the mucus membranes and attacks the immune system, is the most common form of food

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Would you be prepared for an unannounced BRC audit?

The prospect of an unannounced audit is likely to put the fear of God into some food manufacturers. However, like it or not, unannounced audits are on the increase. Supermarket giant Asda is the first of the major retailers to set the ball rolling by insisting that its suppliers have unannounced BRC audits, starting from

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6 September 2013

Are rare steaks safe to eat?

This week an article by food critic Charles Campion appeared in The Daily Mail. It transpires that he enjoys his steak, as do many others, seared on the outside and very rare in the middle. His fear was that meat cooked this way in restaurants may soon be a thing of the past since the

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