As restaurants cut additives, food supply chains must adapt to more near-sourcing

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Fare from Pizza Hut is to contain fewer ingredients – a move which is expected to change food supply chains.

The global chain, which allegedly sells more pizzas than any other restaurant, is cutting out antibiotics and preservatives to be more reliant on near-sourcing, in what is expected to become a wider trend.

Starting at the end of July, meat in Pizza Hut fare will no longer contain the preservatives butylated hydroxyanisole and butylated hydroxytoluene.

And in subsequent steps, it will remove artificial preservatives from cheese as well as antibiotics from chicken in its ...