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23 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Food Standards Scotland (FSS) has announced that it has appointed Professor Norval Strachan as its first Chief Scientific Adviser...
23 March 2016 | By Victoria White
However, FSS says that intakes are still 30% higher than the recommended 6g per day, with two-thirds of adults in Scotland still eating too much salt...
20 January 2016 | By Victoria White
FSS has accepted the suggestion of giving manufacturers and retailers 12 months in which to come up with an alternative acceptable solution to a sugar tax...
14 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The campaign uses tongue-in-cheek humour to get the food safety message across, featuring Santa Claus stricken by a bout of food poisoning...
9 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The proposed revised goals are to reduce sugar to 5% of total energy, increase dietary fibre intake to 30g per day, and to maintain total carbohydrate at 50% of total energy with no more than 5% total energy from sugar...
5 November 2015 | By Victoria White
Food Standards Scotland has launched the awareness-raising campaign encouraging consumers to spend longer looking at food labelling...
28 September 2015 | By Victoria White
The new unit which will be responsible for surveillance and detection of fraud and deliberate non-compliance within the food chain...
17 April 2015 | By Victoria White
Scottish Ministers have approved the update to the 2015 Feed and Food Law Codes of Practice (Scotland) to reflect the creation of Food Standards Scotland...
