The Health Protection Agency’s annual conference, Health Protection 2011, held at the University of Warwick yesterday, revealed to delegates that raw bean sprouts were identified as the main vehicle of transmission in a national outbreak of Salmonella Bareilly food-poisoning.
According to new research published by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), nearly 17 million people suffer from stomach upsets in the UK every year, leading to about 11 million lost working days. The study, which is the biggest of its kind for more than 10 years, looked at the impact of all cases of infectious intestinal disease (IID)
The FSA is today setting out its plans to encourage all remaining local authorities in England and Northern Ireland to adopt the Agency’s Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS).
As more councils roll out the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, Jill Taylor calls for legislation requiring ratings to be displayed.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published a review of existing studies that explore how people manage food safety in their homes and what implications these behaviours could have on their health.
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