Back in the day a ‘proper’ fry-up meant bacon, sausages, fried eggs, fried bread, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms and possibly black pudding, all fried in lard. In fact it wasn’t unusual for children to be sent on their way to school having consumed bacon and tomato or sausage and egg for breakfast. Nowadays the fashion seems […]
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Food Safety & Hygiene News Nutrition Training NewsDid you know that in the UK 4% of adults and 6% of children have a food allergy or intolerance? When we think of products that people are allergic to, it’s often peanuts, shellfish and those containing lactose that spring to mind. However around 1% of the population, known as coeliacs, is intolerant to gluten.
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Food Safety & Hygiene News Food Safety Training HACCP training Nutrition Training News Specialist CoursesVWA trainer and Leeds Metropolitan University food expert, Gill Hooper, is urging aspiring chefs to host a Cook for a Cure dinner party to boost funds for Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity. The new initiative has also won support from some of the UK’s top TV chefs. Gill’s recipes are listed
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Food Safety & Hygiene News Nutrition Training NewsTraining in food safety and hygiene is essential for any company handling or processing food for human consumption, no matter what their size. Only a few years ago all training of this type was classroom-based, with several members of staff undergoing training at the same time, often for a whole day. Dependent on the length
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Food Safety & Hygiene News Food Safety Training Nutrition Training NewsAs a nation, the UK throws away around 8.3 million tonnes of food per year, much of it unnecessarily. The wastage is caused in part by supermarkets offering ‘Buy one get one free’ on perishable items, where there is simply too much of the item for the customer to consume. But perhaps the most common
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