Archive of all Food Standards Agency articles – Page 3
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Comment & OpinionWhy are so many foods with undeclared allergens making it on shelf?
Food allergen malfunctions are supposed to have vanished, but the FSA recorded 314 allergy alerts in the 2022/23 period. So what’s going wrong?
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ProfilesMy food & drink job: Stuart Cant, meat hygiene inspector, Food Standards Scotland
Meat hygiene inspector Stuart mythbusts abattoir work and advises new starters to go for roles with training opportunities
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NewsDover Port accuses Defra of undermining UK food safety with border checks move
Post-Brexit sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) checks on EU imports will take place at Sevington Border Control Post from the end of January
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NewsBritish Lion Eggs launches £1m campaign
The marketing programme will aim to deliver trust and inspiration messages
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Comment & OpinionDid Channel 4 Dispatches expose Bernard Matthews safety flaws or was it a big flap?
Nothing says it’s Christmas quite like a scandal in a turkey factory – which is something Channel 4’s Dispatches attempted to convince us of last week
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NewsBernard Matthews slams Channel 4 Dispatches over ‘scare story’ investigation
The documentary series is due to air an exposé claiming major food safety breaches at a Bernard Matthews’ turkey plant at 7.30pm tonight
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Comment & OpinionFSA’s desperation exposed in uphill battle for food safety reinvention
Food safety is anything but as simple as ABC, as the FSA has found out to its cost
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NewsFSA under fire for ‘misleading’ post-Brexit precision breeding proposals
A post-Brexit bill changed the way genetically edited organisms in food and feed goods are regulated
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Comment & OpinionWhy the FSA is taking a proportionate approach to CBD
If you are using CBD products every day over a long period of time, we can confidently say a dose of less than 10mg is safe, says Emily Miles, CEO of the Food Standards Agency
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Comment & OpinionFSA causes confusion with its new CBD guidance… again
The maximum daily dosage has suddenly and unexpectedly been reduced from 70mg to just 10mg
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NewsFood crime costing up to £2bn per year, FSA research shows
Food crime costs the UK economy between £410m and £1.96b per year, which adds a ’heavy burden’ on businesses and local authorities
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Comment & OpinionHow ongoing CBD legal limbo has created winners and losers
Latest CBD industry legal heave shows massive disparity in the market
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NewsFood standards agencies warn of higher listeria risk in smoked fish
The agencies have advised that pregnant women and those with a weakened immune system should avoid eating ready-to-eat cold smoked or cured fish
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NewsCK Foodstores selling out of date meat and poultry, finds TV show investigation
The retailer had sold or displayed almost 50 items past their use-by date over the course of a year, the investigation claimed
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Comment & OpinionBritain’s meat supply chains remain vulnerable to antibiotic failure
Back in 2015, we were waking up to a world facing an impending ’antibiotic apocalypse’ due to the overuse of critical antibiotics in animals and people. Have we come far enough?
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Analysis & FeaturesHow the FSA's novel foods rule could shake up the road to bug burgers
The FSA has mooted a number of new ideas in its regime review
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Comment & OpinionSlashing supermarket FSA inspections is playing with fire
The FSA’s move to cut supermarket food safety inspections as part of a shake-up doesn’t show lessons from the past have been learnt
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Comment & OpinionDelay to bonfire of EU laws merits a major sigh of relief
The government has reneged on plans to scrap thousands of retained EU laws by the end of the year
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NewsBonfire of EU red tape delayed after backlash
The government is scrapping the Retained EU Law bill’s ‘sunset’ clause
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NewsRevived Farmison starts phased reopening of meat business
The upmarket online butcher was rescued from administration by ex-Asda boss Andy Clarke last month