Tag Archives: Pork

By Rose Eveleth,  Smiths Online Mag Halal meat is supposed to adhere to strict religious rules, but a new study suggests it isn’t quite so spotless. By now, it might come as no surprise to you that a lot of the meat ...

Marks & Spencer says its Muslim staff do not have to sell pork or alcohol to customers   Muslim staff working for Marks & Spencer have been given permission to refuse to serve customers buying alcohol or pork products. Its ...

A flu vaccination programme at schools in Keighley has attracted criticism after it was discovered the vaccine contains pork gelatine. This follows similar issues earlier in Leicestershire. Leicestershire and Rutland is part of a pilot by NHS England to offer ...

Following incidences of pork contamination, the UK halal sector has had a turbulent year and the issue of who should be responsible for monitoring the sector is not yet resolved, as Nicholas Robinson reports. Turbulent does not begin to describe the past ...

By Rick Pendrous, Food Manufacture Standard audits are unlikely to detect fraud, said the British Retail Consortium Conventional third-party hygiene audits of suppliers are unlikely to pick up examples of food fraud – such as the horsemeat incidents exposed earlier this year ...