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Rochdale launches Food Hygiene Rating Scheme
5 July 2011 | By Food standards Agency
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council has rolled out the FSA’s Food Hygiene Rating Scheme...
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New members of microbiological committee
24 June 2011 | By Food Standards Agency
The Chair of the FSA, announced four new appointments to the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food...
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Research on allergy labelling use
23 June 2011 | By Food Standards Agency
New research, published by the FSA, provides insights on how people with life-threatening nut allergies use food labels when choosing what food to buy and eat...
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Update on dioxin contamination in Germany
13 January 2011 | By Food Standards Agency (FSA)
The FSA is providing further information about the ongoing investigation into the dioxin contamination of poultry and pork farms in Germany...
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Food Standards Agency research into consumers’ use of country of origin labelling on food
30 June 2010 | By Jane Ince, Policy Advisor, Food Standards Agency
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) undertook research in 2009 on consumer use of country of origin labelling. The findings were published on 14 January 20101. The work reveals some interesting facts about how much this labelling is used in practice and about how, for meat and meat products in particular,…
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New analytical approaches to investigate the fate of bisphenol A diglycidyl ether (BADGE) in foods
3 December 2008 | By Leon Coulier & William van Dongen, TNO Quality of Life and Emma Bradley & Laurence Castle Central Science Laboratory, York
Many new developments in analytical chemistry are driven by needs for life science applications. Examples are the various –omics technologies, i.e. genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics and the use of isotope labelling. Food analysis is often thought to be less complex when one thinks of the determination of specific contaminants…
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A key factor in food safety: food grade lubricants
16 November 2007 | By Sarah Krol, NSF International
Of primary concern to today’s food manufacturers is the threat of food contamination resulting in regulatory enforcement, product recalls and consumer litigation. Food retailers and their branded suppliers fear instances of food contamination resulting in public notices, widespread food recalls, or even worse, consumer illness. Even before causation is demonstrated…
