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Food Crime Unit should get more power: review

10-Nov-2016 By Matt Atherton

The National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) should be given more powers and resources to investigate food crime, according to a Food Standards Agency (FSA) review.

FSA campylobacter results make grim reading

27-Nov-2014 By Rod Addy

Tests show campylobacter contamination increased substantially over the summer in shop-bought raw chicken and the food industry must do more to tackle the problem, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA).

FSA Board shows risk aversion on ‘raw’ milk

05-Aug-2014

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) Board’s decision on raw drinking milk controls (July 23 2014) was based on a risk averse approach in not accepting the recommendation of the FSA officials to modernise the rules so that consumers would be able to buy unpasteurised...

FSA appoints new board members

07-May-2014 By Laurence Gibbons

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has appointed three new people to its board of directors.

Meat processors welcome new FSA strategy

13-Sep-2012 By John Wood

Meat processors have welcomed the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) new plan for official meat controls and how they should be financed.

New action to raise Olympic standards

03-Oct-2011 By Rick Pendrous

Any food business that fails to rectify hygiene deficiencies in its operations will, from next April, risk being served with a Remedial Action Notice (RAN), potentially forcing it to stop working until improvements are made.

FSA resists call to ban additives

20-Sep-2007 By Rick Pendrous

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has refused calls to persuade the European Commission (EC) to ban various additives after research was unveiled...