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Industry can find FSA ‘frustrating and inconsistent’

By Joe Whitworth on September 13, 2020

Negative terms most commonly used to describe the Food Standards Agency (FSA) were “frustrating, challenging and inconsistent”, according to a survey.

The research was done because the FSA wanted to know how businesses in the…
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Only a quarter of firms with low hygiene ratings display scores

By Joe Whitworth on July 7, 2020

Only one fourth of businesses in England with food hygiene ratings of zero to two are displaying their numbers, according to FSA research.

Almost three quarters of those with a 5 are displaying their rating…
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Survey shows firms increasingly confident about Irish food safety regulation

By Joe Whitworth on July 31, 2019

More than seven out of 10 businesses are increasingly confident about food safety regulation in Ireland, according to a survey.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) found almost three quarters of firms said food…
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New Zealand officials seek feedback on rules for unpasteurized, raw milk

By News Desk on April 22, 2019

Authorities in New Zealand want feedback by the end of the month on whether rules around processing and selling raw drinking milk are working as intended. Between 2009 and 2016 there were 46 outbreaks where…
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Survey finds slow take-up of digital methods to enhance food safety

By News Desk on March 6, 2019

Less than one in 10 companies said new digital technology is playing a role to a “great extent’ in food safety, according to a survey of more than 1,600 industry experts.

The survey by the…
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On eve of genetic disclosures on food, public is mostly confused

By Dan Flynn on October 3, 2018

The nomenclature is likely to be front and center when the U.S. Department of Agriculture publishes final bioengineered food disclosure labeling standards. It’s been in the works for the past two years.

And an offshoot…
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90 percent of farmers in Ireland unaware of animal pathogens

By News Desk on March 13, 2018

Nine out of 10 farmers in Ireland are unaware that healthy animals can be a source of infection people, including their families. More than half don’t know that they can pick up diseases from sick…
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The Results From Our Reader Survey Are In

By Lydia Zuraw on September 20, 2015

(Food Safety News Executive Editor Dan Flynn is away, so Washington, D.C., reporter Lydia Zuraw is using this space to discuss some results from the recent FSN reader survey.) Last month, we opened an…
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Food Safety News Survey Almost Over

By Bill Marler on August 29, 2015

Survey-Small1We are just 100 responses away from our goal of 1,000 to our recent survey. However, the more we get, the better we can understand how to make Food Safety News better. We are extending…
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Publisher’s Platform: Please Keep Those Survey Responses Coming

By Bill Marler on August 12, 2015

Survey-Small1So far, we have had nearly 500 responses to our recent survey. However, the more we get, the better we can understand how to make Food Safety News better. FSN has nearly 150,000 Facebook “likes,”…
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Vermont Report Finds Fewer Raw Milk Drinkers Than Previously Thought

By Dan Flynn on February 7, 2014

Consumer demand for raw milk may not be as large as many have thought, according to a first-of-its-kind state profile of raw milk sales. The just-released “Rural Vermont’s 2013-2014 Raw Milk Report to the Legislature”…
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