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UK – The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced a brand-new, user-friendly web gateway for food businesses that gathers a wealth of information and assistance in one location. The new Here to Help area on the FSA website, according to the regulator, has collected its most popular guidance pages, such as those on how to start a food business, how…
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UK – The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has partnered with the Chartered Institute of Trading Standards (CTSI) and an industry “Trailblazer Group” to help professionals further their careers in food and trading standards. CTSI is a national not-for-profit established in 1881 that supports the UK’s trading standards profession and works to protect consumers and safeguard honest businesses. CTSI’s members…
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UK – The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has identified a number of risk areas while noting that knowledge and data gaps still exist as part of a recent study that examined the hazards linked to cultured meat products, commonly referred to as “cell-based” or “cultivated” meat. FSA undertook the study to assist in the creation of an adequate regulatory…
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UK – In order to improve the detection and tracking of foodborne human pathogens and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), from farm to fork, the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has launched the Pathogen Surveillance in Agriculture, Food, and Environment (PATH-SAFE) program. This £19.2 million (US$23.3 million) research program aims to create a national surveillance network using sequencing technology and environmental sampling.…
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UK – The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has revealed in its annual report that the number of food incidents, recalls and cases of four pathogens went up over a 12-month period. The report and accounts cover performance and activities in 2021/22 across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland at a cost of £130.5 million (US$160.2 million). Campylobacter and Listeria cases reported…
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U.K – The Food Standards Agency (FSA), Food Standards Scotland (FSS), and UKHospitality have collaborated to update the caterers’ hygiene standards guide, which is widely used in the industry. UKHospitality is a hospitality industry group representing over 740 companies across 100,000 venues within England, Scotland, and Wales. According to UKHospitality, the guide is the only accepted manual on hygiene standards…
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UK – An evaluation conducted by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has revealed that insects sold in the UK market pose minimal risk to the general public. The agency subjected seven edible insects that are currently available on the UK market to a risk evaluation that looked at allergens, microbial, and heavy metal contamination. These products include the black soldier…
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UK – The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has started a 12-week consultation to get opinions on the proposed amendments to the Food Law Code of Practice in England from local governments, food business owners, unions, and interested organisations. The proposals include adjustments to the Code of Practice’s delivery methodology for food standards and related materials. These revisions include the introduction…
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UK – The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published a report on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the UK, showing that resistance to quinolones (ciprofloxacin and nalidixic acid) and tetracycline is common in the most prevalent types of Campylobacter from chicken. The study, which delved into the last 20 years of data surrounding AMR in Campylobacter from chicken in the UK,…
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UK – With food donations becoming ever more common, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) recently set out to investigate how best to support such organizations to ensure food safety. To accomplish this, FSA contracted Ipsos, a multinational market research and consulting firm, to research the route that food follows in the community food provision industry from suppliers to final customers.…
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