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10 June 2010
Industry urged to 'step up to the plate'
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PRESS RELEASE
The UK's food and drink manufacturing sector is well placed to adapt to the
future challenges of climate change, a growing global population and resource
scarcity, according to Food and Drink Federation President Ross Warburton.
He will tell today's Campden Day Lecture: “I am convinced that technology – in
all its many guises – will play a vital role in underpinning the food
industry's
collective response to a future world impacted by the challenge of climate
change and energy shortages."
But he will also say: “Industry needs to step up to the plate. As part of our
strategies for adapting to a resource-constrained future, the entire food chain
is
going to have to do more to encourage greater efficiency of resource use. Very
simply, more will need to be produced with less.”
Warburton pointed to FDF's Five-fold Environmental Ambition as a practical example of how manufacturers are already improving their
sustainability – as well as reducing costs and boosting productivity.
He will tell the audience that he remains optimistic the industry – with the
support of Government – will continue to prosper despite the many challenges
that
lie ahead, adding: “I believe that new skills, technologies and innovations
will
have underpinned our efforts to become ever more resource efficient – and
ensured we are well equipped to meet the needs of a new generation of
better-informed
and even more demanding consumers.”
More Information
- FDF Press team
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Cath Wilkins on cath.wilkins@fdf.org.uk or 020 7420 7132
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Sarah Lovell on sarah.lovell@fdf.org.uk or 020 7420 7131
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Rebecca Wilhelm rebecca.wilhelm@fdf.org.uk or 020 7420 7140
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