Mark Jones

Jan 23, 2025 | rdworldonline.com | Mark Jones |Brian Buntz

2024 was the year of spatulageddon. Plastic spatulas were trashed due to reports of dangers lurking within. The journal article that raised concern contained an error, an obvious error. A correction was made but there is more to the story. How a recycling study spawned spatula hysteriaThe study causing spatulageddon is “From e-waste to living space: Flame retardants contaminating household items add to concern about plastic recycling” published in the journal Chemosphere.

Dec 11, 2024 | foodmanufacture.co.uk | David Young |Mark Jones |Marc Lasok-Smith |Monika Zeiden-Lindop

The UK has introduced new rules under the Trade, Aircraft and Shipping Sanctions (Civil Enforcement) Regulations 2024, which mean companies could now face penalties even when they did not know and had no reasonable cause to suspect they were importing/exporting items in violation of trade sanctions. The evolving sanctions landscapeSanctions are policy tools employed by governments with the aim of furthering their foreign policy objectives, or effecting change in foreign jurisdictions.

Dec 9, 2024 | foodmanufacture.co.uk | David Young |Mark Jones |Bethan Grylls

Last month, the UK government announced the launch of its Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO), a new initiative promising to trim the lengthy and often tangled legal pathway to market for new products in high-growth sectors.

Dec 5, 2024 | foodmanufacture.co.uk | Bethan Grylls |Mark Jones

Last month, we brought together a group of experts to explore how the ultra processed food (UPF) debate is shaping the future food and drink system and the unintended consequences that may unfurl following knee-jerk responses. The session saw a number of questions directed at the panel - here we answer the ones we didn’t get time to addressing on the day. You can read a key takeaways article of the session here and watch the webinar for free here.

Nov 28, 2024 | foodmanufacture.co.uk | Mark Jones

Almost two-thirds of adults (64%) and a quarter of children (22%) in England are overweight or obese, data from the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities shows. When the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee published its October 2024 report calling for a new long-term strategy to fix England’s ‘broken food system’, it was a damning indictment of previous governments attempts to curb obesity.