Judging of the BPEX 2006 Foodservice Sausage of the Year Competition took place at the Butchers Hall in London on Tuesday, 17th October, 2006.

Judges get on with the serious work ahead!

The competition judged five categories :

Traditional Pork Sausage, Speciality Pork Sausage, Reduced Fat/Redcuced Salt Sausage, Best Pub Sausage (in association with the Publican) and finally Best Volume Produced Sausage.

The winning sausage which was crowned Foodservice Sausage of the Year 2006 was judged from all of the 15 finalist sausages. A significant increase in both entry levels and quality this year made for a closer than ever competition.

The winners of the five categories of the competition were announced and each sausage manufacturer was there to pick up their award, as well as take part in the judging!

Third Place in the Traditional Sausage Cater gory was:

H Clewlow Butchers, Cheshire.

Tom Cox of H Clewlow receives his prize from Richard Fagan

Second Place for the Traditional Pork Sausage Category was:

H Hofmann & Sons, West Yorkshire

Nigel Hofmann collects his prize

The Winner of the Traditional Pork Sausage was:

Complete Meats, Devon

Shaun Vining from Complete Meats, collects his prize

"With 300 sausages entered in this year's competition, the judging was tough! But with the help of the Ladies in Pigs we managed it!"

: "The Judging of the final for overall winner of the BPEX Foodservice Sausage of the Year Competition is something that makes our competition unique. We don't judge the sausages, the finalists do! This way, it remains foolproof and extremely worthy It's a peer review. We don't tell them who the winner is, the points they give each sausage tell us!"

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