12 Jul 2019

Plans announced for UK’s first food provenance centre

The UK will be getting its first national centre dedicated to improving transparency in the food and drink supply chain.

Farmer-led food provenance group, Happerley England, has today (12 July) announced the plan to deliver increased transparency from farm-to-fork by publicising plans to build a dedicated food and drink centre.

It is hoped that the move will give farmers, suppliers and producers a platform to champion their ‘Gold Standard’ while educating about the UK’s food supply chain.

The centre, to be built at Banbury’s Castle Quay, Oxfordshire, will officially open on 1st March 2020.

TV presenter and farmers Adam Henson, who did the honours of unveiling these plan said, “With Brexit and other economic uncertainties constantly putting farmers’ livelihoods at risk, never has there been a more critical or fundamental time to provide a platform where English-grown and reared produce is championed and celebrated as it should be.

“This is an exciting movement which, as a farmer, I fully endorse and see it as being a step towards achieving full transparency across the whole food and drink industry.”

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