Archive of all Food Standards Agency articles – Page 18
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News
FSA appoints Emily Miles as new CEO
Miles joins the regulator from Defra, and replaces Jason Feeney, who retired last month
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News
Cuts to local authority budgets ‘increasing meat fraud risk’
The Mirror published an article this week claiming one in five meat products in Britain contained animals not stated on the label
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Comment & Opinion
The latest meat fraud outrage is exaggerated. But the risk isn’t
The claim ‘one in five meat products contain animal not stated on the label’ is untrue. But there’s no doubt we must be more vigilant in the fight against meat fraud
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Category Report
Full of, not free from: free-from category report 2019
Today’s free-from products are shouting as much about what they do contain as what they don’t
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News
Listeria outbreak: sandwich firm ceases trading
One hundred and twenty-five jobs will be lost following the liquidation of The Good Food Chain
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News
Listeria outbreak: FSA lets sandwich firm resume production
However, The Good Food Chain says it is undecided about whether it is “viable” to start making food again
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Interviews
Tim Smith: how I’m rebuilding trust at Pret a Manger
The ex-FSA boss has made 88 recommendations on how Pret should improve its food safety systems
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News
Gove to introduce ‘Natasha’s Law’ by the end of the summer
The new legislation will make full ingredient labelling mandatory for all pre-packed for direct sale foods
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News
Lactalis declares cheese recalled over listeria fears safe
A recall of Galloway cheddar this week was based on ‘false positive’ results, the supplier said
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Analysis & Features
How can the food hygiene funding crisis be tackled?
An NAO report paints an unsettling picture. What’s the solution?
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News
Listeria outbreak: FSA to examine hospital food supply chains
FSA board member Mary Quicke has raised concerns over the integrity of hospital chill chains
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Comment & Opinion
Why did it take a tragedy to prompt action on listeria?
Anecdotal evidence suggests cold chain protocols are not being adhered to
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News
Hospitals told to stop serving sandwiches after listeria deaths
Three have died in a listeria outbreak linked to contaminated sandwiches supplied to hospitals
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Analysis & Features
Listeria explained: how worried should the food industry be?
The FSA warns post-cooking contamination is a ‘major hazard’
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News
UK food manufacturers turning away from imported eggs
Research from British Lion has suggested almost half of UK shoppers want to know where the eggs in their food products are sourced from
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News
Listeria outbreak linked to hospital sandwiches kills three people
The supplier, Staffordshire-based The Good Food Chain, has voluntarily ceased production
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News
Food safety recalls surge by over a third, says FSA
In total there was a 36% increase in alerts issued between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2019
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News
Irish police launch raids in horsemeat fraud probe
The raids were in connection to suspected offences linked to the tampering of identification documents of horses presented for slaughter
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News
US trade deal will create 'trouble for trade' with EU
Former senior EC official Lars Hoelgaard has rubbished claims Britain could retain the same access to EU markets following a US trade deal
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Comment & Opinion
Letters: be positive on exports
It was encouraging to see so many strong food and drink operations