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... kerry ingredients & flavours is taking the lid off its r&d work to reveal some of the meat solutions it has in the pipeline for clean label, salt and fat reduction, coatings developments and taste enhancement ... " the irish company is a sponsor of the 57th icomst congress of meat science and technology in ghent, belgium, this week - an annual forum for academic and industry researchers to exchange new scientific ideas in meat science and technology ... christophe gyselinck, r&d manager, functional meat systems and seasonings at kerry ingredients & flavours, said it was an ideal platform to preview its pipeline of r&d initiatives in meat science with meat researchers from all over the globe ... he added: “over the many years of our involvement in the meat industry we have progressively adopted a research and product development approach based on a much deeper scientific analysis of the properties of ingredients and flavours and this has yielded some fascinating and commercially relevant results for our customers ... com: “the kerry approach re-engineers ingredient systems and seasonings (such as herbs and spices) to create a range of new clean label options for meat processors

... the fal team also provides a lot of support to the meat industry and looking at microbiological issues

... the fal team also provides a lot of support to the meat industry and looking at microbiological issues

... proposals to examine a move to a privatised system of third-party inspection of primary meat premises were rejected by the food standards agency’s (fsa’s) board early last week ... in its response to the macdonald farming regulation task force report and the 19 recommendations that related directly to the fsa , the board agreed with all but one about setting up a group to consider the provision of meat inspection services by third parties ... currently under existing regulations, meat inspections across the eu are strictly regulated ... monopoly situation however, many in the meat industry argue that this monopoly situation is unnecessarily prescriptive and costly ... there have been a number of recent calls for a change to eu law to enable a more risk-based approach to meat inspections ... the industry wants any revised meat inspection regime to be open to private third-party companies in a similar way to that operating in other high-risk sectors of the food manufacturing industry ... but the agency, unions representing meat inspectors and other consumer groups argue that the 'privatisation' of meat inspections would jeopardise food safety in high-risk meat production sectors

... the uk food industry has given the european parliament's (ep's) final agreement on food labelling a mixed reception, with one consultant reckoning label changes cost £7,000 per product ... the fir extends country-of-origin labelling to cover fresh meat from pigs, sheep, goats and poultry, closing a current loophole that allows producers to label meat as british if it were only processed in the uk ... cool labelling east midlands labour mep glenis willmott said this was good news for the uk meat industry as it would help shoppers choose meat from british farms ... the european commission (ec) will also submit a report within two years to examine the possibility of extending mandatory country-of-origin (cool) labelling to meat used as a composite ingredient in processed food ... within three years the ec will examine the same question in regard to other types of meat, as well as milk, milk used as an ingredient, unprocessed foods, single-ingredient products and ingredients that represent more than 50% of a food

... in its discussion, the board confirmed its view that: it is not a function of the fsa to subsidise industry and if a continuing subsidy is to be provided it should come from elsewhereproviding the best possible protection for consumers from food risk should not be based on economic circumstances or the ability of an industry to pay the board agreed that: full cost recovery should be introduced over a three-year period, beginning in april 2012 ... the revised proposals mean that these meat plants would pay reduced charges in a tiered system, depending on the volume of livestock units or meat they process ... for meat plants processing more than 5,000 livestock units per year full cost charges would apply with no discount for any of the throughput ... 4 million for about 420 establishments as originally proposed the fsa estimates that removing the current discount would result in cost increases to the uk meat industry of approximately £20 million ... this is against a uk meat market (excluding game) worth about £6 ... in calculating the costs that will be passed onto the industry, the board was provided with clarification on those attributed to pensions ... previous indications to industry stakeholders were that full cost recovery would include the current employers’ contributions for the local government pension scheme (lgps), and also contributions payable to members of the scheme who had already retired ... following a review by hm treasury of the cost and the allocation of that cost, it has been agreed that industry will not bear the cost relating to the deficit in the local government pension scheme, which would have totalled £4 ... fsa chair jeff rooker said: ‘the board has confirmed that it is not the role of the fsa, as the food safety regulator, to subsidise the meat industry for the cost of delivering official controls

... the food standards agency’s (fsa’s) board today responded to meat industry lobbying by agreeing to recommend that ministers adopt a “tapered” approach to the introduction of meat inspection charges ... pension fund deficit the fsa also agreed not to impose historical meat inspector pension fund deficit liabilities on companies as part of the new arrangements ... ” this reduced the meat inspection cost recovery bill to the industry from £55m to £50 ... 3m in efficiency savings in its meat inspection operations, but there is “an awful lot more to be tapped into” , the fsa’s director for scotland charles milne said ... however, following consultation with stakeholders over recent weeks, the fsa board accepted that this could distort development of the primary meat processing sector, given a disincentive for abattoirs to move into the higher bands, since all their animals would then be charged at the higher rate ... effective monopoly while hard-pressed small abattoirs are likely to welcome the changes, the amendments are unlikely to dispel industry criticisms that it is being subjected to an inefficient and costly inspection regime by an effective monopoly in the fsa ... fsa board member and farmer tim bennett said: “we have failed to convince [meat processors], because we have not got evidence that we [the fsa operations inspections system] are pretty good about what we do ... ” unlike in other food manufacturing sectors, the eu’s meat inspections are covered by prescriptive legislation ... while the fsa is seeking to make efficiency savings in uk inspections to reduce the cost to industry, it is also working with partners in europe to get legislation changed to permit a more risk-based approach to meat inspection

... uk-based clean label ingredients company ulrick and short has developed its synergie and eziglaze range of range of functional clean label starches to aid marinade and glaze adhesion for meat products ... made for meat: the new clean label functional starches are designed for use with meat products ... the firm's director adrian short told foodnavigator: “there are very few functional starches on the market for the meat industry ... we wanted functionality that matches what meat products require as alternatives to modified starches and additives ... “succulence is improved after the starches disperse within the meat to set up moisture-forming matrixes during and after processing,” said short ... “moisture is retained within the meat avoiding water purge and helping to preserve the flavours of both the protein and the marinade

... places are still available for anyone interested in attending public discussions on proposals to charge the uk meat industry the full cost of official controls on meat ... on 25 may, at its open meeting, the fsa board will discuss future charging policy for meat official controls

... the food standards agency has today published a board paper that updates its proposals for charging the meat industry the full cost of delivering official controls in meat plants ... the key changes are: the proposal to support more small businesses with a low throughput by expanding the number of meat plants in this category; and to begin a phased implementation of full cost recovery in april 2012 ... this reflects industry concerns on the impact for this type of meat plant ... meat plants falling into this category could pay reduced charges in a tiered system, depending on the volume of livestock units or meat they process ... the paper reinforces the commitment of the fsa to reducing the cost of delivering meat official controls from £55