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Commission proposes revisions to food and feed regulations

8 May 2013 | By FSA

The European Commission has published proposals to change the current legislation...

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Very low levels of bute found in Asda ‘Smart Price Corned Beef’

9 April 2013 | By FSA

The FSA has been informed by Asda that very low levels of bute, have been found in 340g tins of its Smart Price Corned Beef...

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Update on Agency’s beef product survey

9 April 2013 | By FSA

The FSA has confirmed results for four of the remaining five samples relating to the Agency’s UK-wide sampling programme of beef products...

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Agency welcomes new allergy project

25 March 2013 | By Food Standards Agency (FSA)

The Food Standards Agency is supporting an international study into food allergy which has just launched...

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Hungarian horse meat labelled as beef

22 March 2013 | By Food Standards Agency (FSA)

The Food Standards Agency has been informed by Lancashire County Council that it has identified 100kg of horse meat imported from Hungary labelled as beef...

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Burger company withdraws products

22 March 2013 | By Food Standards Agency (FSA)

Testing has shown that three samples of beef burger products made by The Burger Manufacturing Company, have tested positive for at least 1% horse meat...

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HPA publishes Cryptosporidium investigation findings

19 March 2013 | By Food Standards Agency (FSA)

The HPA published findings of an investigation into an outbreak of Cryptosporidium infection...

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Cutting plant suspension lifted

18 March 2013 | By Food Standards Agency (FSA)

The FSA has granted conditional approval to the Aberystwyth meat plant that had its approval suspended during the horse meat investigations...

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Views wanted on a novel food supplement

18 March 2013 | By Food Standards Agency (FSA)

A Japanese company has applied for approval to market a strain of the bacterium Clostridium butyricum as a novel food ingredient...

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Update on progress of FSA beef product surveys

8 March 2013 | By Food Standards Agency (FSA)

Sampling of the first and second phases of the Food Standards Agency's UK-wide survey of beef products has been completed...

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Third FSA update on testing of beef products for horse DNA

1 March 2013 | By Food Standards Agency (FSA)

The FSA has received the third set of test results from the food industry, which has been checking for the presence of horse DNA...

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Update on EU sampling programme

28 February 2013 | By Food Standards Agency (FSA)

The FSA is publishing further details of the European Union sampling programme that was agreed by member states...

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Study calls for new research on E.coli in cattle

26 February 2013 | By Food Standards Agency (FSA)

A report has recommended that the use of livestock feed additives and cattle vaccines should be investigated...

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FSA update on testing of beef products for horse DNA

22 February 2013 | By Food Standards Agency (FSA)

The FSA has received the second set of test results from the food industry, which has been checking for the presence of horse DNA...

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Food Safety supplement 2013

22 February 2013 | By Dr Hilde Kruse, Helen Bahia, Knuth Lorenzen

Antibiotic resistance: a major concern for food safety (Dr Hilde Kruse, Programme Manager Food Safety, WHO Regional Office for Europe)Meat contamination in Europe (Helen Bahia, Editor, New Food)CIP tank farm arrangements (Knuth Lorenzen, EHEDG President)

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