Food manufacturing giant 2 Sisters Food Group, United Kingdom, opened a food safety laboratory where almost 1 million ready-to-eat, ready-to-cook food samples such as ready meals and pizza, will be tested each year.
The laboratory—based at Nottingham’s BioCity Laurus site—created 20 new jobs, bolstering the workforce to 60 at the Pennyfoot Street site. Catherine Brown, chief executive officer of the Food Standards Agency (FSA), was tapped to help open the new food safety lab. Up to 16,000 samples a week are tested at the facility, with samples coming from 2 Sisters Food manufacturing sites all over the UK.