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... proposals to examine a move to a privatised system of third-party inspection of primary meat premises were rejected by the food standards agency’s (fsa’s) board early last week ... the industry wants any revised meat inspection regime to be open to private third-party companies in a similar way to that operating in other high-risk sectors of the food manufacturing industry ... but the agency, unions representing meat inspectors and other consumer groups argue that the 'privatisation' of meat inspections would jeopardise food safety in high-risk meat production sectors

... yesterday’s open board meeting discussed the food standards agency’s response to the macdonald farming regulation task force report and the recommendations that relate to the fsa ... the task force remit, from an industry perspective, was to identify ways to reduce the regulatory burden on farmers and food processors through a review of relevant regulations and their implementation, and to advise on how best to achieve a risk-based system of regulation while maintaining high environmental, welfare and safety standards

... the european food safety authority (efsa) has today published its report into the possible source of the recent e ... in line with this report, the food standards agency is confirming its current precautionary advice ... the food standards agency’s advice is also unchanged ... a uk company that has been linked to the outbreak in france is the only uk food business currently known to have received the implicated fenugreek seeds via the german importer of the affected batch ... alison gleadle, director of food safety at the food standards agency, said: ‘samples of the implicated seeds from the company are currently being tested for e

... pendle borough council has rolled out the food standards agency’s food hygiene rating scheme ... the food hygiene rating scheme helps you choose where to eat out or shop for food by giving you information about the hygiene standards in restaurants, pubs, cafés, takeaways, hotels and other places you eat, as well as in supermarkets and other food shops ... about the scheme the food hygiene rating scheme is run by local authorities in partnership with the fsa ... in areas where the scheme is running, each food business is given a food hygiene rating on a scale from 0 to 5 when it is inspected by a local authority food safety officer ... the top rating is ‘5’ – this means the hygiene standards are very good ... when you eat out or shop for food, look out for a sticker like the one below, showing you the food hygiene rating for that business ... does your favourite restaurant, takeaway or food shop have good hygiene standards? you can find out at food ... uk/ratings the food hygiene rating scheme is new ... this means not all food businesses with have a hygiene rating yet, but more business are being rated all the time

... a scientist who chairs the uk's independent committee on toxicity (cot) says the european commission’s (ec’s) move to ban the import of baby bottles using bisphenol a (bpa) is not based on scientific evidence, and has rejected calls to ban its use in food packaging ... heinz is committed to a bpa alternative in can linings, despite insisting that minute levels are safe writing in the food standards agency’s (fsa's) online magazine, bite, professor david coggon said: “the ban on bpa in baby-feed bottles is not based on scientific evidence of harm, or even on a strong suspicion that it could be harmful ... industrial chemical bpa is used to make a hard, clear plastic used in polycarbonate baby bottles; it is also used to manufacture epoxy resins, which act as a protective lining on the inside of metal-based food and beverage cans ... she also stressed concerns given the compound’s widespread use in food products such as can linings ... but coggon said a recent european food safety authority (efsa) toxicity review of bpa reconfirmed a tolerable daily intake (tdi) of 0 ... “a disadvantage of over-precautionary advice to consumers is that it distracts attention from other more important factors, such as … microbial contamination of food,” he added ... ” many large food manufacturers continue to use bpa in can linings, and coca-cola recently upset some shareholders by announcing that there was insufficient evidence to stop using the chemical in epoxy can liners ... uk that despite reassurances from uk and european food authorities that minute levels of bpa in can coatings are safe, “heinz remains committed to moving to alternatives” as part of global phase-out ... on the bisphenol a scare more generally, barnes said he understood concerns over babies’ bottles, but said he didn’t believe that food packaging per se was a real risk, and that without using the compound in can linings there would be a higher risk of metal contamination of foods

... ” volume sales slump while value and tertiary supermarket brands introduced since the recession appeal to cash-strapped consumers, key note said higher prices generally had lifted sales by value in 2010, although volume sales fell as consumers curbed spending on non-essential food items ... in addition, healthy eating, promoted heavily by the food standards agency’s drive to cut fat, sugar, salt under the terms of the responsibility deal, has seen brands such as weightwatchers and go ahead! expand rapidly, with tertiary brands cashing in

... the food standards agency’s (fsa’s) board today responded to meat industry lobbying by agreeing to recommend that ministers adopt a “tapered” approach to the introduction of meat inspection charges ... ” unlike in other food manufacturing sectors, the eu’s meat inspections are covered by prescriptive legislation

... defra (the department for environment, food & rural affairs) has ruled out financial support for the organic industry, despite producers saying they stand alone and a soil association (sa) report damning whitehall’s “diffident, if not lazy” approach ... ” other eu governments push organic according to the sa: “most european countries have acted confidently to normalise and champion organic food and farming as a pioneering, sustainable and environmentally friendly way to produce food ... when it comes to thinking in a truly sustainable way about the future of food and farming [they] have preferred to sit back and snooze ... ” the sa said the swedish livmedelsverket (the food standards agency’s equivalent) actively recommends locally sourced organic produce to the public – upon a health, welfare and non-intensive processing platform – while the dutch government targeted a 10% growth on consumers’ organic spend between 2008-11 where support for organic farmers was crucial at the start of the supply chain, the sa said the uk only offered per hectare grants averaging €87 from 2002-2006, well behind sweden (€130) and germany (€175): uk grants now stand at €71

... in september 2010, the scottish food enforcement liaison committee's (sfelc) research working group published an annual report providing an overview of food sampling data collected during 2009 by scottish local authorities (las), and placed on the food standards agency’s central database, the uk food surveillance system (uk fss) ... the uk fss has been used routinely by 29 scottish las since 2005, and has provided the agency and the enforcement community with a valuable repository of information on food safety and standards ... the northern ireland strategic committee on food surveillance has also produced similar reports on food sampling carried out in 2007 and 2008 by district councils in northern ireland ... these would not usually be considered a risk to health but may be indicative of poor food preparation and handling practice ... the submission of sampling data to uk fss has allowed the scottish dataset to be analysed for trends and emerging issues to inform las' future food sampling programmes and research and surveillance activities ... the report indicates that the vast majority of food samples taken by scottish las during 2009 were satisfactory, and highlights some of the measures currently in place for the monitoring of foods across scotland

... mep glenis willmott is "quite confident" that the european council will overturn the european parliament’s (ep’s) decision to scrap colour-coded front-of-pack food labelling in the eu ... after the first reading of the food information regulation (fir) in the ep in june, meps rejected proposals to include mandatory traffic light labelling on processed foods and instead opted for a gda-based (guideline daily amount) system ... they also voted against proposals to allow individual member states to retain national labelling schemes such as the food standards agency’s (fsa) traffic lights system ... “it would be a great shame if we lost traffic light labelling, because food companies and retailers in the uk have invested heavily in the scheme, given its fsa backing