Each year CFA members redistribute millions of food items, including chilled ready meals, sandwiches, desserts, pies and soups. In 2022 nine million meals went to those in need through partners such as Company Shop and FareShare. This means a total of almost 38.5 million meals have been redistributed by CFA members since 2017. Dr Rachel Hackett, Chair of CFA’s Sustainable Development Working Group explains: “Our members are proud of the fact that for we continue to send no food waste to landfill, instead redistributing wherever possible. It is just one of a range of initiatives we have to reduce our […]

CFA’s highly regarded guidance documents remain central to its work and the industry is already welcoming the latest of these: ‘Principles of an Environmental Monitoring Program for the Management of Listeria monocytogenes’. This guidance is part of a package of work led by CFA in preparation for potential changes to EU legislated Listeria monocytogenes criteria (CFA News #59). That work has now largely been published at www.chilledfood.org/listeria. The guidance sets out effective environmental hygiene management using monitoring and preventative and corrective actions and how to interpret this data and relate it to other results from raw materials, components and product. […]

Brexit continues to sit high on CFA’s agenda, with the Association leading in Government engagement on the future of trade between Great Britain, Northern Ireland (NI), the EU and Rest of the World (ROW). As reported in CFA News #59, CFA continues to lead the SPS (Sanitary and Phytosanitary) Certification WG in Government engagement on the future of trade between GB, NI, the EU and the ROW. The UK’s Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) for imports has now been published, introducing new SPS certification requirements starting from 31 January 2024 for certain medium risk foods such as products of animal […]