Good Afternoon.

At Innovate, we take our food safety responsibilities very seriously and are deeply concerned about the reports of horsemeat in minced beef products.

 Following the statement issued by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), Innovate have already requested and received written assurances from all our suppliers of meat and meat products. 

 They confirm that the sources of their meat are mainly from the UK using approved establishments under schemes such as Red Tractor.

 In accordance with the FSA, all our suppliers are sending their meat for speciation/authenticity testing and we have instructed our food safety consultants, Hygiene Audit Systems, to monitor and update us on this process.

 The time period for a test is usually 7 to 10 days but with the demand for testing at the moment this has increased to up to 21 days.

 We are very confident that our foods will not be affected, however, given the fluid nature of the FSA investigation we will, of course, not make any assumptions until we receive satisfactory test results from our suppliers.

 As a precautionary measure, we have quarantined all beef products until Hygiene Audit Systems are satisfied they meet the legal requirements.

 Once all test results have been received I will update you accordingly.

 If there is anything I can help you with or that you would like to know then please do email me.

Kind Regards

Paula Lee

 Compliance Manager

Our F1 in schools team (Team Dynamica) raced today (26/2/13) in the regional finals held at the University of Exeter, winning their class overall. The team has worked hard over the last year to get to this point, raising sponsorship, learning to use state of the art CAD/CAM software, desigining and producing their own design of a scaled down “Bloodhound” class racing car. They have been judged on not only the speed and quality of the final design, but on their presentation skills, pit display and on the process they used to get themselves to this point. 

The team members are:

Cameron Boland (Team Leader)

Nick Long (Design Engineer)

Ellis Lloyd-Holland (Manufacturing Engineer)

Lloyd Batten (Resources Manager)

They came in with a best time of 1.248 seconds over the 20 metre track, beating the time of some of the the F1 cars in the next class up. Cameron Boland, Team Leader, said “This has been a challenging and rewarding experience, we have learnt a lot about how engineering and businesses work  and we can’t wait to go to London for the Nationals.”  Team Dynamica now go on to the national finals in London, having won their “Bloodhound” class at these regionals.

Team Dynamica also won the “Sponsorship and Marketing” trophy for the event and would like to thank all their sponsors:

Goodridge, CME, Telesis, Fly Moore, RC Bearings, Every’s, Pro Serve, Consortium, wpswestward,

who have made competing in this event possible, through generous financial support and through giving of their time and expertise.

Well Done & Good Luck for the National competition.

Here are some photos from Literacy week 2013

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