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Red Tractor plans changes to retain, boost consumer trust

By News Desk on September 20, 2018

A food chain assurance system in the United Kingdom is to undergo an overhaul to maintain consumer trust following criticism aimed at it and incidents in the sector.

Red Tractor is a food standards program…
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Cucumber Salmonella outbreak strain isolated from four sites of UK company

By Joe Whitworth on August 1, 2018

Seventeen food isolates matching the Salmonella outbreak strain linked to 147 illnesses were detected earlier this year in four plants of one company and the site of a different firm in the United Kingdom.

The …
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Britain’s FSA talks about Brexit challenges in annual report and accounts for 2017-18

By News Desk on June 29, 2018

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) for the United Kingdom will have to stand on its own after the island nation withdraws from the European Union next year. It means food safety in the UK will

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Local officials say Brexit could undermine food safety in U.K.

By Kelsey M. Mackin on May 31, 2018

The Local Government Association of the United Kingdom is warning that food safety will be undermined when Brexit begins next year, and continuing forward, if federal authorities don’t take action to ensure uninterrupted access to…
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Food source suspected in Hep A outbreak in six EU countries

By News Desk on May 23, 2018

More than 40 cases of Hepatitis A have been reported in six European Union countries, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDPC).

The 42 cases across Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands,…
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FSA warns consumers about those trendy raw chicken dishes

By News Desk on September 15, 2017

The London-based Food Standards Agency is worried people may believe what they read in the newspaper.

A report that ran last weekend in the lifestyle section of The Daily Mirror about a celebrity chef who…
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Food safety regulation in UK to undergo change during Brexit

By News Desk on July 25, 2017

What’s going to happen after food safety in the United Kingdom is separated by Brexit from the European Food Safety Authority’s mothership in Parma, Italy?

“Along with the EU (European Union) Exit, changing the way…
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FSA releases food incident details for final quarter of 2016

By News Desk on February 7, 2017

In the final quarter of 2016, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) for the United Kingdom issued 34 food notices, including 17 for allergy alerts. Milk, nuts and gluten were the top three undeclared allergens named.
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UK food safety pilot program lets some stores, pubs police themselves

By News Desk on October 18, 2016

In announcing plans to shift food safety regulation away from a “one-size-fits-all” approach, the United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency also announced it has designed a three-month pilot program that will allow certain big retailers and…
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Superbug reportedly found in UK supermarket pork products

By News Desk on October 5, 2016

A British newspaper has reported that tests on pork products sold at two major UK supermarket chains found three samples contaminated with a livestock strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. According to The Guardian …
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