A horticultural business has been prosecuted for safety failings after a worker cut his hand on an unguarded machine.
Suffolk Mushrooms has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £8,446.05 in costs after Health and Safety Executive inspectors found dangerous conditions at its Bury St Edmunds factory.
The UK's fresh tomato market will not be affected by the speculative linking of sun-dried tomatoes last year to an outbreak of hepatitis A, the British Tomato Growers Association has said.
Agriculture accounted for a fifth of all workplace deaths in the last financial year, despite employing only two per cent of the UK workforce.
Two companies have been found guilty of breaching health and safety regulations following workplace accidents.
Two companies have been found guilty of breaching health and safety regulations following workplace accidents.
Health & Safety Executive fatality statistics prompt calls for industry to carry out better training.
A farming partnership in Cupar, Fife, has been fined £112,500 after a 34-year-old worker was killed when he was crushed between the rollers of a potato harvester.
A public statement released by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) on a UK E. coli outbreak earlier this year has provoked a mixed reaction in the fresh produce industry.
UK health authorities have been slammed by the Fresh Produce Consortium (FPC) for failing to properly engage with the industry over an investigation into an outbreak of E.coli 0157 PT8 in the UK.
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