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Teenagers skipping dairy, says survey
The Hippocratic Post website reports that Britain’s teenage girls are ditching dairy, according to a survey among 2,000 UK adults, including over 1,000 parents, which showed that almost 1 in 5 teenage girls aged 13-19 are drinking less milk than two years ago, and one in six have cut it out of their diets altogether.
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Valio to pay bonus for responsibly produced milk
Valio has announced that it will be renewing its quality and production practices in order to promote animal wellbeing and a better quality of life for the animals.
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Increasing omega-3 in dairy products
A PhD student at Harper Adams University in the UK has increased the level of long chain omega-3 while reducing the level of saturated fatty acids in cheese and producing the same the taste, by feeding microalgae to cows.
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Unicorns are here
The advent of Food Ingredients Europe in Frankfurt last week was a much-needed note of cheer to round out this eventful year.
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Lloyds invests in milk analysis company
Dairy and livestock information company National Milk Records (NMR) has secured a £250,000 (€281,000) hire purchase facility from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking.
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Survey probes consumer knowledge of hay milk
Testing services provider TÜV SÜD has carried out a survey examining consumers’ knowledge of hay milk.
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A matter of friendship
I was in Stockholm last week for the European Dairy Association’s annual conference. When I wasn’t eating cottage cheese with nuts and small dried fruits, I was listening to the European Union’s Commissioner Cecilia Malmström get quizzed by top executives from Valio, Arla, DMK and Danone.
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M&S dairy farms get RSPCA certification
British retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has become the first major retailer to source all of its fresh milk from RSPCA Assured dairy farms.
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Spot the cheese and collect £500
I was drinking my morning coffee last Saturday and reading the Grauniad (also known as the Guardian) when I came across Richard Clothier of Wyke Farm’s smiling visage peering out at me, from a field surrounded by cows.
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Arla launches Pure Dairy campaign
Arla Foods Ingredients has launched a new Pure Dairy campaign to highlight how its range of Nutrilac dairy ingredients satisfies growing consumer demand for natural products.
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Jonathan Fell
Jonathan Fell, Director of The Ice Cream Farm, UK
A cheese experience
Those who have not been to the International Cheese Awards at Nantwich should probably go at least once to the field in Cheshire if they love cheese.
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Study looks at dairy and non-dairy fluid drinks
In recent years, retail sales of fluid milk have experienced significant change and per capita consumption has decreased at a rate of 830ml per year since 1975.
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Plants on the march
Faced with unstoppable change, sometimes innovation and risk-taking is the only path that’s available.
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