Here are the latest news stories from FDF Scotland. If you are a journalist and would like to be notified when FDF Scotland issues a press release, please send an email to: kirsty.ritchie@fdfscotland.org.uk.
6 February 2020
Primary schools from across Scotland are being challenged to create an
innovative, healthy street
food dish that they would love to eat during their lunch break. More about Scottish primary schools - Create a healthy street food dish to eat for lunch
5 February 2020
Ahead of the publication of the Scottish Government's Budget 2020/21, David
Thomson, CEO of
Food and Drink Federation (FDF) Scotland, said: More about FDF Scotland Budget 2020/21 submission: on behalf of the food and drink manufacturing industry
3 February 2020
FDF's response to the Prime Minister's speech. More about FDF's response to the Prime Minister's speech
30 January 2020
Helen Munday, FDF Chief Scientific Officer said: "The Bill heralds a much-needed
overhaul in
environmental legislation, the first of its kind for over twenty years" More about Food and Drink Federation response to the introduction of the Environment Bill
28 January 2020
FDF has issued the following press notice: More about Food and Drink Federation response to the MAC Report
28 January 2020
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has today published the latest annual
progress report for its
Ambition 2025 environmental targets, showing that the food and drink
manufacturing sector delivered a
reduction in food waste of over 30% on a per capita basis since 2011. More about Manufacturers reduce food waste by 30% within a decade
27 January 2020
Organisations from across the UK food and drink supply chain have today launched
a new policy
paper outlining common themes the Government should use to develop future trade
policy, as
negotiations between the UK and other nations begin. More about Food and drink supply chain outlines recommendations for Government's future UK trade policy
16 January 2020
Tilda and Food and Drink Federation (FDF) Scotland are challenging Scottish
secondary schools to
create a new street food dish - using any one of Tilda's Wholegrain rice range
-
that appeals to their
chosen target market. More about Scottish secondary schools - Create a new street food dish
16 January 2020
FDF response to the introduction of the Agriculture Bill. More about FDF response to the introduction of the Agriculture Bill
15 January 2020
Twenty-seven of the country's leading business representative groups and
sectoral trade
associations have written a joint letter to MSPs, urging them to vote to retain
the Uniform Business Rate.
More about Commerce unites to save the uniform business rate