Editing: a Disin-gene-uous business?
Euractiv reports that the UK is currently aligned with the EU framework on gene-editing technologies, as organisms produced using these techniques are ...
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M&S blames Brexit, closes 11 French stores
The BBC reports that Marks & Spencer is closing 11 of its French stores because of problems supplying them with ...
Co2: the latest hit to UK food’s structural vulnerability
Dwindling Co2 supplies is a structural vulnerability affecting the UK’s food security, industry leaders have warned. The British meat industry has ...
Britain delays post-Brexit trade controls again
Reuters reports that Britain has delayed the implementation of some post-Brexit import controls for a second time, saying it would ...
Brexit: EU ‘not looking for political victory’
According to the BBC, the EU is not looking for a "political victory" on the protocol, the European Commission vice ...
Brexit: Labour shortage means food thrown away
The BBC says one of the country's biggest vegetable producers is losing thousands of pounds a week and having to ...
Bring in the army to relieve UK lorry driver crisis
Reuters says Premier Foods, one of Britain's biggest food companies, has called on the government to consider using the army ...
UK food shortages and worker scarcity
Bloomberg says that from abattoirs to restaurant kitchens, the UK food sector is facing a massive challenge this summer: there ...
Britain could face food shortages due to lorry crisis
Reuters reports that Britain could face gaps on supermarket shelves this summer and an "unimaginable" collapse of supply chains. The ...
UK food and drink exports to EU fall by almost half
UK exports of food and drink to the EU dropped by almost half in the first three months of 2021 ...
Child labour plagues our food system says World Benchmarking Alliance
A “shocking lack of action” over child and forced labour has been exposed across agrifood, in a study that found...
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