We hope your Heritage Day Weekend was great and that you got to spend some time enjoying friends, family, good food, and the rugby of course! Interesting Global News... New technology out of Japan claims to speed up bacterial testing in food, cutting testing time down from days to mere hours. This could be one to watch. Read more Sweden plans to abolish its plastic bag tax from November 2024. The government believes the sustainability objectives have been met. Not all agree with this move. Read more France’s agriculture ministry plan to ban 21 terms like ‘steak’, ‘beef’, ‘ham’ and ‘grilled’ from plant-based meat labelling. Where have we seen this before, I wonder? Read more UK Supermarket is replacing use-by dates with best-before dates across its own-brand milk range to reduce food waste as of February 2024. Read more
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