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Food Hygiene Rating Scheme

Recommendations made in food hygiene ratings system review

By News Desk on July 5, 2019

A review of the food hygiene ratings system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has resulted in 12 recommendations.

The assessment of the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS), commissioned by the Food Standards Agency (FSA),…
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Tourists, locals shouldn’t expect inspection scores on England’s restaurants; only half use stickers

By Joe Whitworth on June 4, 2019

Almost half of businesses in England don’t display their food hygiene ratings, according to figures from the Food Standards Agency (FSA).

Rates of displaying stickers visible from outside the premises was 52 percent in England,…
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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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UK High Court: 2010 Inquest into Boy’s E. Coli Death Will Stand

By News Desk on November 5, 2015

Ten years after the death of 5-year-old Mason Jones from E. coli O157:H7, Lord Justice of Appeal Patrick Elias has decided to let the 2010 inquest into the boy’s death stand. Elias found there…
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38 Sickened in UK E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Prepackaged Salad

By News Desk on September 8, 2015

Bagged-Salad_406x250Health officials in England are tracking an outbreak of E. coli O157 linked to prepackaged salad that has sickened 38 people. The Verocytotoxigenic E. coli (VTEC) cases were first identified in early August 2015 by…
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Nine Hospitalized in British Salmonella Outbreak

By News Desk on September 13, 2013
British public-health investigators are tracking the source of a Salmonella outbreak which has put nine people in the hospital and sickened 57. Those who became ill range in age from an infant to an 87-year-old.

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E. coli Conference: Research Should Focus on the Source

By Dan Flynn on August 30, 2012

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 for future research.…
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London Restaurants Post Food Inspection Scores

By Dan Flynn on July 20, 2012

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 in many locations in the United…
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Food Safety Advocate Nominated as 'Mum of Year'

By News Desk on October 15, 2011

Sharon Mills, the mother of 5-year-old Mason Jones, who died in 2005 in the largest-ever E.  coli O157:H7 outbreak in Wales, has been nominated for Mum of the Year.

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Mills, 36, is being recognized for

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Eight Months in Wales for Hygienic Violations

By Dan Flynn on February 17, 2011

The former owner of the Llay Fish Bar is going to jail for eight months and is banned from ever being in the food business again.

Wales has delivered justice for the 2009 Llay Fish

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Wales Coroner Finds the System Killed Mason Jones

By Dan Flynn on November 26, 2010

Butcher William John Tudor sold rotten meat for years, according to testimony in a coroner’s inquest in Wales this week, but that did not lead to a verdict against him for unlawful killing.

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Instead, Gwent

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