A Leeds city centre restaurant has been fined for serious food safety offences found in an unannounced inspection after reports of salmonella food poisoning that left 19 people ill (Full Foodborne Outbreak Report Included).
Tuition fees of up to £9,000 are a daunting prospect for any student embarking on higher education, but new research from the UK’s leading flat and house share website SpareRoom.co.uk – based on more than 300,000 rental properties – can reveal the university towns and cities with the most affordable private-sector room rents, with the price of bills included, for students looking to make savings while studying.
Health Protection Scotland, on behalf of the Incident Management Team, have published the final report into an outbreak of foodborne botulism in Scotland in November 2011.
The English Housing Survey Household Report 2010-11 and English Housing Survey Homes Report 2010 have been published by Communities & Local Government. The key findings and reports are available below.
Recently published scientific opinion by the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) suggests that traditional poultry meat inspection may not suffice to fully address the most relevant biological hazards to public health: Campylobacter spp., Salmonella spp. and ESBL/AmpC gene-carrying bacteria.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has produced a summary of its research published in June 2012. This includes a comparison of aflatoxin levels between Brazil nut kernels and their shells, and a study evaluating the levels of arsenic, cadmium, lead, copper and zinc in samples of fruit and vegetables grown in the UK.
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