Bangers and mash, sausage and chips, sausage casserole, sausage rolls, hot dogs, toad in the hole… who can resist the versatile British banger? Not many of us it seems! Sausages are the nation’s favourite meat-based dinner, bought by 87% of British households. In fact we love them so much that there’s even a British Sausage […]

There are bound to be a few pale faces about this Halloween, but as food manufacturers and processors you want to be sure that it’s the result of make-up and not any food you’ve produced! Having an effective HACCP plan (and sticking to it) should ensure that the potential for food poisoning caused by chemicals

Top VWA student Wayne Bonadie, gained the highest marks in the country when he took his RSPH Level 4 Award in Food Safety Management for Manufacturing examination last year and was recognised with an award at the recent RSPH Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony in London. Wayne, who now works at Essex distillers and blenders,

Band Aid burst into song and implored us to ‘Feed the World’ in 1984 and yet 28 years later one in eight of the world’s population is still going hungry, according to the United Nations. To put that into figures it means that 868 million people are currently classified as undernourished. However, ever since world

We’ve all heard the term ‘dirty money’, but were you aware that you could be handling it every day? According to research undertaken by experts at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) faecal bacteria can be found on 14% of bank notes, 10% of credit