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Sodium solutions

The UK food industry has made incredible advances in salt reduction, but the population is still consuming an average of 2g per day over the recommended daily intake. 

With new industry pressures such as sales restrictions on products deemed High in Fat, Sugar and Salt (HFSS) coming in to play this year, we expect to see a new wave of salt focussed reformulation. 

With this in mind, do you have the information you need about salt’s role in food, and how to reduce it? If not, don’t worry! Tune in to our Sodium Solutions podcast and hear from:

• Joanne Burns – Reformulation for Health 
• Sonia Pombo – CASSH
• Greg Waters – Peacock Salt
• Keith Paterson – Shore 

Reformulation for Health provides free support for Scottish SMEs to reformulate their produce for the benefit of the Scottish population. 

Contact [email protected] for more details. 

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Cranfield University: Extracting value from bread waste

Natalie Verner, FDF’s Senior Sustainability and Environmental Policy Executive talks with Vinod Kumar and Emel Aktas from Cranfield University. The podcast explores how Vinod’s work on valorisation of bread waste can help manufacturers with their surplus, and also touches on the research Cranfield University is doing more widely in this area.

Vinod can be reached via https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/people/dr-vinod-kumar-15955661 and Emel via https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/people/professor-emel-aktas-508615

The FDF Podcast is sponsored by Clarke Energy

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Natalie Verner, FDF’s Senior Sustainability and Environmental Policy Executive talks with Emma Brown, Commercial Manager at FareShare. The podcast explores how FareShare works to fight food poverty and tackle food waste by taking surplus edible food from the food and drink industry and redistributing it to charities and community groups who provide meals for vulnerable people, turning an environmental problem into a social solution.

FareShare can be contacted via their website,

 https://fareshare.org.uk/

Which also offers details of how manufacturers can book a virtual waste walk to find out how FareShare can help identify and redistribute quality surplus food in their supply chain.

The FDF Podcast is sponsored by Clarke Energy

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Chloe Rossi talks to Lloyd Manship, who is the Brewery Manager at Budweiser Brewing Group’s Magor site in Wales .

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Chat with Natalie Verner on food waste and her new role in FDF’s Sustainability Team

Emma Piercy, FDF’s Head of Climate Change and Energy Policy talks with Natalie Verner, the newest member of FDF’s sustainability team. The podcast explores Natalie’s background as a food technologist in the UK, her international experience in food whilst working in New Zealand, and her interest in food security and her work in food waste – and volunteering in her spare time!

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This Week's podcast David Thomson speaks to FDF CEO  Ian Wright about his time at FDF

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 Food & Drink sector risks and opportunities

Emma Piercy Head of Climate & Energy at FDF talks with Christophe Lavialle from RSK ADAS, on the risks and opportunities facing food and drink businesses and how to tackle them. 

The podcast covers all areas from supply chains through to consumers, and how climate change and the drive to greater sustainability is gaining momentum in the food and drink sector.

FDF Podcast is sponsored by Clarke Energy

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James Hawkins and Cat Hay join Ian Wright for his pernultament update 

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FDF's Emma Piercy reviews her time at nature day at COP26

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FDF's Emma Piercy chats with Alex Smith head of Alara