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FSA finds Brits not up to the mark on best burger practices

By News Desk on August 31, 2016

A survey of about 2,700 British adults has found that while 71 percent of them said they were concerned about food poisoning, 36 percent would still eat a burger that wasn’t completely cooked. According to…
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FSA names panel to review future of UK’s food crime unit

By News Desk on August 9, 2016

The National Food Crime Unit set up two years ago by the Food Standards Agency in the United Kingdom is about to get its first outside review. Set up in 2014, the National Food Crime…
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UK Panel: Raw or lightly cooked eggs safe for pregnant women

By News Desk on July 27, 2016

The Food Standards Agency of the United Kingdom is just about ready to tell pregnant women and other vulnerable groups like the young and the elderly, that its safe to eat lightly cooked or raw…
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Scotland reports declines in campylobacter contamination rates

By News Desk on June 6, 2016

Both the number of raw chickens sold at retail showing campylobacter contamination and the number with the highest level of contamination are showing improvement, according to Food Standards Scotland (FSS). Campylobacter remains the most common…
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UK’s Food Standards Agency reports first-quarter food incidents

By News Desk on May 24, 2016

The United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has released details on food incidents the agency handled during the first quarter of 2016. The summary is for all food incidents which occurred between Jan. 1 and…
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FSA begins reporting on recent food safety incidents in UK

By News Desk on April 5, 2016

The Food Standards Agency for the United Kingdom has for the first time published a summary of recent food incidents. It covers the period between October and December 2015. The list is a summary…
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2015 in Review: Animal Antibiotics

By Lydia Zuraw on December 28, 2015

Antibiotics4_406x250It’s difficult to summarize what happened on the animal antibiotics front this year. There were lots of pledges, lots of discussions and lots of reports, but not very many actions. Still, we still wanted to…
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UK’s Food Standards Agency Monitoring Tweets to Detect Outbreaks Sooner

By News Desk on November 13, 2015

The U.K.’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has reportedly been systematically checking for Twitter hashtags such as #sick and #barf in order to identify potential foodborne illness outbreaks. According to the agency’s chief scientific adviser, FSA…
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UK Businesses With Food Safety Violations Now Getting Mapped

By News Desk on November 4, 2015

The United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has come up with a response to all those who say that publishing restaurant inspections is just a “moment in time” report — it is mapping the entire…
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E. Coli Outbreak in Scotland Linked to Venison Sickens 9

By News Desk on October 7, 2015

Venison_406x250Scotland’s health agencies are investigating an outbreak of E. coli infection associated with the consumption of venison products. As of Sept. 4, 2015, there were nine cases of infection with the same strain of E. …
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