CFA and IFST: Special Interest Group involvement

8 May, 2026

CFA continues to support the work of the Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST) through its Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Karin Goodburn MBE Hon FIFST is a member of the Food Safety SIG and the Consultations Triage Group. The Food Safety SIG engages on hot topics, contributes to relevant publications and organises webinars and events. Dr Rachel Hackett FIFST is a member of the newly formed Food Sustainability SIG, established to translate issues and share developments relating to sustainability across the food sector.

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CFA joins UK Packaging Pact as founding signatory

5 May, 2026

CFA has signed up as a founding signatory to the UK Packaging Pact, joining 55 organisations ahead of the Pact’s launch in April 2026. The UK Packaging Pact is the successor to the UK Plastics Pact – a world-first initiative that has since inspired a global network of Pacts operating across every continent. Building on seven years of collaboration and measurable impact, the new voluntary agreement extends the focus beyond plastics to drive system-wide change across all packaging materials, with four goals covering optimising packaging, scaling reuse and refill, unblocking barriers to circularity, and harmonising data. The ambition is to […]

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BRCGS Issue 10: CFA at the table

1 May, 2026

BRCGS certification has long been a membership requirement for CFA – and the Standard’s origins are closely linked to CFA’s own history, with the original accreditation scheme arising from the first editions of CFA’s chilled food production Guidelines in the late 1980s and early 1990s. CFA’s Karin Goodburn has been involved in BRCGS working groups from Issue 4 through to Issue 9 and has now been appointed to the English language Issue 10 Technical Working Group – following a competitive selection process attracting more than 500 applications from around the world for the English- and Mandarin-speaking working groups. The group […]

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