According to the South African Poultry Association’s (SAPA) interim CEO, Dr Charlotte Nkuna, more than four million chickens have been culled as the bird flu outbreak in South Africa wiped out more than 15% of layer hens. And with the resultant shortage of table eggs, comes the prospect of hefty price increases.
Following its 2014 commitment to switch to a 100 percent cage-free global egg supply chain, Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, announced that it will complete this transition by 2025. According to Nestlé, all eggs it sources must be from hens raised without the use of cages, helping accelerate the egg industry’s move away from the caged confinement of laying hens.
Rebecca Brooks is the only full-time female butcher at Forager’s Market, a nose to tail butcher shop in Brooklyn, New York, and one of a scant 24.6% of butchers who are women in the US. But she is cranking out 45 pounds of sausage a week and showing that skill and technique are key to a butcher’s work.
The dry-aging technique is being described as “a significant industry trend”, spurring Viking Food Solutions to showcase the ‘Dry Ager’ product range at the 2017 Fine Food Australia Expo, demonstrating the value to food businesses of producing unrivalled product quality via the meat dry-aging process.
A French producer of regional cheeses has given the packaging for one of its speciality products a makeover with the help of RPC Bebo Bouxwiller.
Africa’s Ultimate Packaging, Food Processing, Plastics, Printing & Labelling Exhibition will take place between 12 – 15 March 2019 at The Expo Centre Nasrec, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Shortly after Sovereign released a Sens statement informing shareholders that it had detected avian flu at a single layer house on a farm that forms part of its Uitenhage operations, CBH CEO Marthinus Stander said the company had decided to abandon its second bitterly fought attempt to gain control of Sovereign Foods.
The BiltongBoard.com was created in 2015 to link local lovers of biltong with small producers whose quality products were going unnoticed. Two years – and over 100 biltong recipes – later, the full range will soon be available offline at a stylish dedicated Biltong Board bar set to open in the Cape Town CBD.
Find out how a new flavor sensation – Bubba’s Texas BBQ – is taking the Eastern Cape local markets by storm.
Find out how incorporating Red technology into seasonings and flavouring systems can assist your company to achieve its sodium reduction targets without compromising flavour.
