FSA backs ‘more ambitious’ inspections overhaul, despite fresh supermarket safety fears

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The results of a consultation on plans showed “strong resistance” from local authority inspectors to the idea of using supermarket data as the basis for a new national system of regulation

Supermarkets who have failed to implement food hygiene and safety measures in their own stores should not be handed the reins in a massive new safety shake-up bankrolled by The Treasury, frontline food enforcement officers have warned.

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