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Food Standards Agency

Food Safety top of the agenda for UK Food Standards Agency

15th Feb 2008 by Alex Briggs

The UK FSA is set to discuss a report on food safety issues at their next meeting.

The report includes progress made in certain areas of food safety, while raising a red flag concerning foodbourne illnesses.

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Sustainability in the Food Supply Chain: Hype or Trend?

25th Jan 2008 by Cor Groenveld

A roundtable discussion was recently organised by LRQA’s Netherlands office. The focus was on sustainability in the Food Supply Chain.
Here is a brief synopsis of the topics covered and the key points raised.

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UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) urged to improve emergency system

7th Dec 2007

Environmental campaigners urged the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) to improve its emergency system at yesterday’s review meeting on the unauthorised GM rice incident, reveals a recent article on foodnavigator.com.

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Fake food and drink on the rise

30th Oct 2007 by Alex Briggs

Counterfeiting costs the food and drinks industry an estimated $75 million, not to mention the damage to brand reputation and consumer confidence. With an increase between 2003 and 2005 of 250% in the volume of counterfeited food and drink items, there is a clear need for collaboration between industries and governments to fight the problem.

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CIES International Food Safety Conference

Event: 13th Feb 2008 – 15th Feb 2008

CIES International Food Safety Conference
13 - 15 February 2008

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Provenance, Food Miles & Carbon Footprint Of Food & Drink

Event: 23rd Oct 2007 – 23rd Oct 2007

Provenance, Food Miles & Carbon Footprint Of Food & Drink
23rd October 2007

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New Food Safety Website for smaller firms

2nd Oct 2007 by Cor Groenveld

Small and medium food companies often struggle with food safety requirements. The USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) has created a website to help small and medium size firms better manage their food safety.

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How organic is organic? More bad news for British farmers

24th Sep 2007 by Alex Briggs

This Times article has raised a difficult topic for organic farmers.

The article reveals that Helen Browning, the director of food and farming at the Soil Association, sends pig shoulders from Wiltshire, England to Germany for processing into sausages and imports pork loins from Sweden to make bacon.

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More consumer calls for transparency

21st Sep 2007 by Alex Briggs

In a food safety environment that is being increasingly driven by consumer awareness and outcry, soft drink manufacturers are taking steps to assure consumers that they are reducing additives in their products.

This Foodqualitynews.com article

A recent Food Standards Agency (FSA) report stated:

“eating or drinking certain mixes of additives together with the preservative sodium benzoate, could be linked to a negative effect on children’s behaviour.”

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A bit of good news on food safety

18th Sep 2007 by Alex Briggs

Andrew Wadge, The UK Food Standards Agency’s Chief Scientist has a blog. In his latest post, he writes about some good news on lower salmonella contamination levels in eggs.

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Climate Change

The Climate Change section is your one stop shop for news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and other climate change resources.

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The Supply Chain Assurance section covers news, blogs, podcasts, standards, events and resources on supply chain issues.

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Food

The Food section focuses on issues of food safety and the food supply chain, and provides news, blog posts, podcasts, resources, standards and events.

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CSR

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) section focuses on current CSR issues which face all companies all over the world. This information is provided to you via six sections: news, blog posts, podcasts, resources, standards and events.

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Product Conformity

The Product Conformity section contains news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and resources covering Product Conformity and other European Union related issues.

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Carbon Labelling

The Carbon Labelling section was launched in sync with the Check-out Carbon report, June 2008. The section contains information on news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and other carbon labelling resources.

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