May 2014
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This seminar was a timely opportunity to discuss Government's ongoing focus on making the UK food and drink sector more competitive, with particular attention to increasing exports, developing new food technologies, meeting environmental challenges and encouraging more young people to work in the industry. It brought together key policymakers from Parliament and Whitehall with representatives of the food and drink industry, including manufacturers, retailers, and suppliers, agriculture, regulators, local government, academia, charities and consumer groups.
Delegates assessed the success of The Food and Drink International Action Plan in maximising trade opportunities for the food and drink sector and how it might be developed in the future, and what more Government can do to help open up markets, remove trade barriers and develop opportunities in emerging economies going forward. With the first food engineering course due to be launched in September 2014, this conference provided delegates with an opportunity to discuss how to attract the best young people to work in food and drink and how to raise the sector's profile as a career option. Further sessions covered the next steps for reducing the environmental impact of food, encouraging the transfer of new technologies in the food and drink industry and challenges for the sector outside of London and the South East.