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FSA staff may strike over pay; agency consults on meat charges

By News Desk on October 25, 2022

Some food safety staff at the Food Standards Agency (FSA) are being asked if they want to go on strike because of their pay. 

Several hundred meat inspectors, vets, and office-based staff in England, Wales, and…

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FSA allows co-location of pet and human food production

By Joe Whitworth on January 27, 2021

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has allowed some pet food to be made in the same plant as food for human consumption.

In 2018, the FSA ran a public consultation on the subject with three…
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UK public concerned about lower meat standards in future trade deals

By News Desk on March 1, 2020

More than four fifths of people are concerned about laws on meat quality standards being relaxed so trade deals can be secured with the United States and other countries, according to Unison, a union in…
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Meat inspection petition with 216,000 signatures given to FSA

By Joe Whitworth on February 15, 2020

A union in the United Kingdom has submitted a petition on meat inspections, signed by more than 216,000 people, to the Food Standards Agency.

Steve Nash, a consumer advisor on E. coli O157, Unison national…
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