Sian Edmunds
Burges Salmon LLP
Articles
Tesco fined for £7.6m for out of date food sales
United Kingdom - April 20 2021 Tesco has been fined £7.6m for selling food past its 'use by' date. This is a big fine which might have been reduced if the Court had allowed expert…
UN report says more must be done to tackle food waste - can expiry dates play a part?
United Kingdom - March 5 2021 A report on food waste produced by the United Nations Environment Programme and Wrap (the Food Waste Index Report 2021) concludes that the overall…
Rethinking UK food production?
United Kingdom - February 5 2021 As the UK's 'net zero' deadline moves ever closer, calls for UK food production methods to change grow louder. The latest of these voices comes in the…
GMOs: Redefining and repurposing
United Kingdom - January 11 2021 The Oxford Farming Conference 2021 last week featured all of the ministers responsible for agriculture policy in the four UK nations. Last year the…
Is food missing from the Net Zero agenda?
United Kingdom - December 4 2020 There's a lot of talk about the UK's commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 but is food production a missing piece of the puzzle when it comes to…
