FSA Board meeting papers published

The agenda and papers for next month’s open Board meeting have been published. The meeting will be held in London on Tuesday 5 November 2013. It will begin at 1pm and will be chaired by FSA Chair Tim Bennett. You can attend in person or watch it live online.

5 November 2013 Board meeting

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The agenda includes discussion on these items:

• update on horse meat action plan
• BSE: a report on surveillance and enforcement of controls on specified risk material and animal feed
• UK local authority food law enforcement annual report 2012/13
• annual update on nutrition in Scotland and Northern Ireland
• local authority audit rating scheme in Wales

How to register for the open Board meeting

To let us know you would like to attend the meeting, you can register your interest via ‘Register for the open Board meeting.‘

As places may be limited, please wait until you receive an official confirmation of your registration before making arrangements to attend.

If you need help registering, or have any queries, please contact us:

tel: 020 8481 3302

email: [email protected]

Question and answer session

At the end of the meeting, there will be a question-and-answer session where members of the public are encouraged to ask questions or make comments on any of the matters discussed by the Board or raise any other issues relating to our work.

If you have a question in advance of or during the meeting that you would like to ask the Board, email [email protected].

Podcasts

Food Standards Agency open Board meetings are also available as podcasts. This means that complete audio coverage of each meeting can be downloaded onto your computer or MP3 player for accessing at your convenience.

This meeting’s podcast, as well as a video-on-demand format, will be available from Thursday 7 November 2013.