Food safety insight and analysis – Page 13
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Analysis and Features
Food fraud: catch them - if you can?
With horsemeat back in the dock, the fight against food fraud is once more top of the agenda. But as Brexit looms, is the UK ready to beat the crooks?
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Comment and Opinion
Horsegate has put fraud much higher up businesses' agendas
This week’s conviction in the Horsegate trial brings at last a degree of closure…
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Comment and Opinion
Step up the food fraud fight
I generally spend the first week of July in South East Asia discussing food security in the region
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Comment and Opinion
Food safety efforts must never be compromised by complacency
Sir, Companies must ensure they are doing all they can to remove any threats to products
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Comment and Opinion
British farmers must challenge these US-style mega farm misrepresentations
A headline-grabbing report on intensive factory farming is pure ’scaremongering’ … it’s all down to a question of scale
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Comment and Opinion
EU-China-Safe project forges a safer future
EU-China-Safe will mobilise resources across Europe and China to develop a cohesive partnership
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Comment and Opinion
We need tougher solutions for rice's arsenic problem
Proactive food companies just need to think outside the box
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Comment and Opinion
Edible insects are just one more hard to swallow 'miracle'
I have developed deep scepticism for the daily scientific miracle
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Comment and Opinion
Audits need to leap forward
The coordination and standardisation of audits was one of the eight pillars of food integrity in the Elliott Report
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Comment and Opinion
The ‘houmousgate’ affair: how secrecy gave the story unwanted mileage
By refusing to explain exactly what’s happened, retailers and suppliers have opened the door to hysteria
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Comment and Opinion
Fraud: never stop fighting it
It is essential that HMRC remains firm in dealing with applicants for BWS licences
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Analysis and Features
Will Frankenfoods flood the market in post-Brexit US trade deal?
If a US trade deal is struck, will there be a stampede of hormonal beef and a flood of chlorine-washed chicken?
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Comment and Opinion
Why the ‘Frankenfood’ factor is set to put a spanner in any special free-trade relationship
New exclusive research for The Grocer suggests British consumers aren’t keen on US meat
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Analysis and Features
The food mob: how the mafia has infiltrated food & drink
Crime syndicates dug their claws 30% deeper into Italy’s €130bn food sector last year, with mafia-related sales worth €21
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Comment and Opinion
Crisps study reveals potentially unsafe acrylamide levels
Tyrrells, Seabrook and major supermarkets were among the worst offenders, claims the study from the Changing Markets Foundation
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Comment and Opinion
Brazil fraud points to need for UK food fortress
On a slightly wet St Patrick’s Day, I was alerted to a new breaking scandal around red meat fraud
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Comment and Opinion
Princess Anne lines up a royal rumble with GM comments
It’s always fun when the Royal Family weighs in on matters of national importance
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Analysis and Features
Will FSA reform 'loosen the reins' on big food business?
The FSA board has stressed self-regulation is not on the cards
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Analysis and Features
Just how robust is on-pack nutritional information?
The Sun last week claimed Porky Lights sausages marketed as low fat to slimmers were in fact no different to normal bangers
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Analysis and Features
Will food safety regulation be too light-touch after Brexit?
The winds of change could be set to blow through the UK food sector’s regulatory landscape over the coming months