The regs keep changing. Someone should explain them like a human.
EUDR and the UK's deforestation rules. RAM 2027 and pEPR. BRCGS Issue 10, IFS, SMETA, RSPO, Fairtrade, honey fraud. Plain-English briefings on what's coming, how to be ready for it, and what it actually means for your site — written by a practitioner who sits the audits, not a vendor selling you software, courses, or a £140 PDF.
No spam. No "thought leadership". Nothing sent for the sake of sending it.
Points you at the right page. A 71-page regulation usually contains about four paragraphs that concern your site. Finding them is the expensive part; reading them isn't. This narrows it down, tells you why it matters, and shows its working so you can check.
The whole stack, not one silo. Food safety standards, ethical audits, sustainability schemes, and the regulation landing on all three. Most sources cover one of them. Your job doesn't.
No vendor agenda. Not selling audits, software, or lab tests. When the honest answer is "do nothing yet", that's the briefing.
Every regulation, standard revision and deadline heading for a UK or EU food site — filterable down to yours, with a source link and a verification date on every entry. Free, and the most useful page here.
Open the calendar →Why "One Step Back"? Art. 18 of the General Food Law says every food business must know one step back and one step forward in its supply chain. Almost all of the risk — the fraud, the deforestation, the thing that ends up in a recall notice — is one step back. So that's where this looks. More on what's covered →