Karin Goodburn MBE Hon FIFST, Director General of the Chilled Food Association, has continued a busy schedule of Listeria-focused presentations and training across the sector. CFA has launched the UK’s first industry-wide E. coli intelligence database, opening up access beyond CFA members to support benchmarking and best practice in fresh produce and irrigation water safety. At this year’s National Food Safety Study Day for Hospitals in June, held at Governors Hall, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, Karin addressed the challenge of listeriosis as one of the most important food safety hazards facing the healthcare sector. Now in its fourth year, the […]

Welcome to our new member Pukka Pies Ltd, a company that has making pies since 1963. Back then, the business was known as ‘Trevor Storer’s Homemade Pies’. Today, the business is still independent, the bakery is still family-run, and Pukka’s roots remain firmly in Leicestershire – employing 400 people from the local community in the bakery based in Syston, just a stone’s throw away from where it all began. Pukka takes pride in feeding the nation and always strives to do the right thing for its people, bakery, brand, and environment.

Launched by the Chilled Food Association in September 2011 to tackle a skills gap in the chilled food sector, our Chilled Education programme has grown into a trusted, award-winning hub connecting classrooms with industry across the UK – recognised three times at the FDF Awards for Education Initiative, most recently praised by judges as ‘breathtakingly brilliant’. Over 15 years, Chilled Education has helped thousands of students and teachers put food science centre stage – from free lesson plans for Key Stages 1-4 and CFA’s MicroTrumps card game, to more than 100 Store Cupboard Science experiments and over 55 career profiles […]