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The Food Standards Agency has launched National Food Safety Week, with the focus this year being on the work of FSA staff and thousands of others across the food supply chain working behind-the-scenes to ensure that food is safe and what it says it is.
A group providing outside perspective to the joint review by the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland has met for the first time.
Recent high-profile product recalls and withdrawals have shaken the confidence of retail buyers and consumers alike. To complicate matters, there has been considerable confusion when trying to distinguish between failures to follow guidance (which can be remedied) and serious, fraudulent or criminal activity. Nick Allen looks at what processors and…
Brexit will mean “a bumpy ride” for food business, which must succeed in global markets and fully engage their staff, said Lord Mark Price, keynote speaker at last Thursday’s conference organised by the public health and safely organisation, NSF.
Two academics have called the Food Standards Agency's programme of change into question, saying it is a "bad policy being rushed through when Ministers and Parliament are not paying attention".
Shared European agencies overseeing food standards and safety have created a buffer for the UK as it continued to cut the budgets of its own, according to new analysis. But with Brexit fast approaching, how will the nation police and regulate its food industry?
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In the wake of a handful of highly-publicised concerns over food hygiene practices at meat processing plants, the FSA, FSS and meat industry figures have released a joint statement.
Russell Hume accused the Food Standards Agency of creating 'impossible trading conditions' after it stopped products from leaving its sites last month.
Both meat producers emphasised the voluntary nature of their recalls after the FSA's inspections, saying the measures were 'precautionary'.
A company that supplies meat to schools, care homes, pubs and restaurant chains has been ordered to stop sending out produce after a unannounced inspection uncovered food hygiene problems at a midlands plant.
In Northern Ireland and Wales, where it has become mandatory for food retailers to display their Food Hygiene Rating, safety compliance has risen.
Starting in April 2018, food businesses throughout Europe will have to take steps to cut down on acrylamide - a carcinogenic chemical produced by food in high temperatures.
Britain's Food Standards Agency (FSA) has revised its guidelines to food and drink manufacturers on protecting their businesses from deliberate attacks.
The CEO of the hygiene scandal-struck 2 Sisters Food Group has apologised before the British House of Commons Environment and Rural Affairs Committee.
The latest development in the saga caused by the exposure of unsafe working practices at a poultry plant, 2 Sisters' CEO will appear before the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.
