Food Safety: A new Scottish body Food standards
Ministers have announced plans to create a new food standards body in Scotland. The new Scottish body will cover food safety, food standards, nutrition, food labelling and meat inspection.
Food Safety: Meat plant found guilty of delivering over-temperature meat
The Food Standards Agency has brought a successful prosecution against an Essex slaughterhouse for deliveries of over-temperature meat. A judge found Elmkirk Limited guilty on all eight charges under the Food Hygiene (England) Regulations, fined the company £12,000 and ordered it to pay prosecution costs of nearly £26,000.
Food Safety: FSA Report shows increase in number of food incidents
The Food Standards Agency saw an increase in the number of food incidents it investigated last year. These included reports of contaminated or illegal food entering the food chain, with some potentially harmful to the public.
Food Safety: Welsh Government to introduce mandatory FHRS
The Welsh Government will introduce its Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Bill, designed to provide consumers with more information about where they eat or buy food and raise food hygiene practices among businesses.
Food Safety: FSA publish research on FHRS
The Food Standards Agency has published two pieces of research that assessed the level of voluntary display of its food hygiene schemes in the UK.
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