 Following their launch at last year, the 2005 SOFHT Awards were announced by Society Vice Chairman and Membership Director, Jonathon Bayne during the SOFHT Annual Luncheon held on 17 November at the London Millennium Mayfair Hotel.
Judged by a panel of food industry experts from the Society's membership: Chris Turner from Rokill, Amy Standen from Budgens Stores and Ciaran Murray from United Biscuits, the five winners were:
- Best New Product sponsored by Sainsbury's went to Cryonite, a non-pesticidal method for the elimination and control of crawling insects and their life stages in the food industry. Cryonite was developed by CTS Technologies, Switzerland, and is represented in the UK by Insect-o-Cutor.
 | Peter Cottee, Insect-o-Cutor, receives the SOFHT Award |
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The finalists in this category were Burco's Mobile Hand Wash Unit and Profume gas fumigant by Dow AgroSciences LLC |
- Best Auditor or Technologist sponsored by Tate & Lyle was awarded to Gary Pepler of Marks & Spencer plc for his thorough, fair and helpful approach.
The finalists in this category were Samantha Tait, Tesco Stores and Helen White, Britvic.
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Gary Pepler from M&S who won Best Auditor or Technologist receives his award from SOFHT Chairman Simon Houghton-Dodd |
- Company of the Year (less than 100 employees category) sponsored by Budgens Stores was awarded to Nene Valley Foods, a farmers co-operative that the judges thought is delivering exceptional ‘value-added' products, helping farmers to innovate and survive in this difficult climate for the agricultural industry. The other finalist in this category was Single Source.
- Company of the Year (more than 100 employees) sponsored by Rokill Ltd went to Tate & Lyle for its innovations in healthier products including the development of ‘solution sets', low GI fruit sugar, light cane sugar and its popular sugar-based substitute Splenda. The finalists in this category were Premier Foods and Rentokil Pest Control.
- The SOFHT Award was awarded to Sir John Krebs, former chair of The Food Standards Agency for five years. His work involved increasing trust in public confidence in food safety and giving evidence to the public based on sound scientific evidence. His strategic plan 2001-2006 covered reducing food borne illness, promoting healthy eating, promoting informative labeling, promoting best practice within the food industry and improving enforcement of food law, all aspects which have now been embraced by the food industry.
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Sir John Krebs being awarded the SOFHT award |
 Simon Houghton-Dodd, Chairman of SOFHT said of the event:
“The SOFHT Luncheon is the society's flagship event and is a rare opportunity for members of the food industry to meet up, some to entertain clients, many to network and others simply to recognise achievers in the food industry, from new product innovations through to leaders such as Dr Jon Bell and Sir John Krebs.
“The awards are increasing in popularity too and demonstrate how important it is to recognise best practice, one of the core aims of SOFHT. Congratulations to all those shortlisted and of course to the winners.”
November 2005
View the picture gallery of the SOFHT Luncheon
Read about the SOFHT Lecture and Luncheon
Former FSA Chair Receives Top Award
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