Food security

Corporate industry research and development is strictly guarded, this can greatly hinder industry and society i.e. a company solves a common problem faced in food hygiene and creates a good practice which could benefit industry as a whole but would often prefer to watch non competing companies fail in their attempts, for a small competitive advantage, this shared good working practices Globally.

iMakr Partnership with Rococo Chocolates, successful in creating chocolate Mini-You's Over Easter.

“The Chocolate Mni-You's were a great success for both us and Rococo” and generated a lot of interest from public and Press alike, Our chocolate Mini-You's were featured in the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard. We Simply Would not have been able to create this Product, Nor Generate this Level of exposure without the Projet 660.” Rees Calder Marketing manager iMakr

Prof M Whieldon Associates Food Safety Auditing and HACCP a management system in which food safety is addressed through the analysis and control of biological, chemical, and physical hazards from raw material production, procurement and handling, to manufacturing, distribution and consumption of the finished product.

Health and safety ingredients testing of imported containers, products with ISO 9001 traceability certificate, Allergy, Suitability information i.e. Vegan, Coeliac, lactose intolerant and those adhering to their Faith, Halal Cert i.e halal humanely slaughtered and not containing pork or alcohol, for one of the largest Food service companies in the UK supplying over 3,500 specialist and general food ingredients from around the World supplied wholesale to European, Asian, Middlle East, Afican and South American restaurants, hotels, catering facilities and ingredient for food manufacturers for the major super markets.

Hospital nutritional studies prove health is closely linked to diet, the sugar TAX introduction in UK 2018 on sweetened carbonated drinks, designed by World Health Organisation WHO to lower Obesity and Cancer rates Nationally.

Many countries that have introduced suger tax on unhealthy soft drinks etc, which can be used to generate funds for free school meals to start poorer children’s day improving educational outcomes paying local farmers to produce healthy crops, reducing transport costs and co2 map of countries with Suger Tax link

Trained in engraving by the master engraver who hand made plates for the Bank notes for the Bank of England. Design for certificates for new mothers when they complete breast feeding training course in the Caribbean. self funded the specialist staff some with 16 years experience were made redundant, after high adoption rates of breast feeding with new mothers.

Plastics have been in the food chain since the 1940’s food and drink packaging exposure can seep Bisphenol-A an estrange like hormone into what we consume, Safe levels where set in the 1950’s when little was known,  they can have an impact on the menopause in women, avoiding plastic packaging, removing the packaging when arriving home and looking for BPA free water and drinks bottles to can help reduce exposure and help balance hormones.

Sent information on alternative to BTA plastics to trading standards when they where reviewing clear labelling on packaging and shopping bags de-compostable plastics.

For example the European Union blocked US imports of morpholine or other amines as a coating of fruit including apples since 2011.

Advertising breaks with the rebranding of the famous Coca-Cola billboard in London’s Piccadilly to Dasani. See Arch

Coca Cola is the best-selling drink in every country in which it is sold, except Scotland. Where nothing out sells IRN BRU, the factory which was outstanding in bench marking.

Had a presentation from chief scientist at Unilever on the process of modelling viscosity of the liquid to design the detergent bottles and how the formulas is safety tested.

Corn flakes have no nutritional value alone in the 1890’s Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, added vitamins to deliver vitamin pills to America, And marketed it to make the public associate it with healthy food. To give an Affluent Americans an alternative to a meat at breakfast, while we eat portage oats in Scotland.

One GM trial on a crop and pesticide had a small insect adapt to overcome the GM modification and pesticide within a short time and when tests where made the insect had flown in the upper air streams and been change world wide.

July 2020 there was a warning to online shoppers not to plant seeds received unexpectedly in the post after buying items online from eBay and Amazon, warning gardens not to plant the seeds as they could be invasive, non-native species and damage natural bio diversity.