The report from the so-called “supershedders” conference on the future of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) research — held recently in Scotland — is out. It identifies key knowledge gaps and recommends areas
Food safety concerns in the United Kingdom change slowly over time, but they do change. Twice a year, the Food Standards Agency in the United Kingdom fields an opinion survey
Just before the 2012 Summer Olympics, restaurants in London are publicly posting their inspection ratings for the first time.
It’s not an A-to-F letter grade like those now seen
The Food Price Index – produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – suggests we are paying less for food this year than we did for much of
For a second consecutive year, the number of incidents involving food safety in the United Kingdom increased in 2011, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) reports.
Tim J. Smith, the agency’
Desinewed meat, produced with low-pressure separation equipment to remove flesh from meaty bones, is outlawed in the United Kingdom beginning tomorrow.
The UK’s Food Safety Agency is imposing what
Transportation, terrorism and tickets have been among the top concerns for planners of London 2012, the summer Olympic Games that begin in just 120 days.
But now they are turning
Growing concern about the potential risk of Internet and vending machine sales of unpasteurized milk has the United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) thinking about revising the rules.
The
Oil produced from shrimp could soon be used as an ingredient in food supplement products in Europe.
But since the oil is a new and novel food ingredient with no
British meat-packing plants deemed to be a “cause for concern” will be named publicly under a policy adopted this month by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), which is responsible for
Public perception of risk from raw vegetables remains very low in the United Kingdom, according to new consumer research conducted since E. coli outbreaks this year in Britain and Germany
Bite, the quarterly magazine of the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA), is stirring the genetically modified (GM) foods debate by dedicating its entire, just-released 32-page issue to the subject.