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Food Standards Agency

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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Food Safety and Politics

– 18th Sep 2007

The food safety dispute between the US and China has now taken on a further political dimension, with Chinese authorities inspecting all incoming food from the US.

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New white paper shows Chinese food exports safest in world

– 17th Sep 2007 by Alex Briggs

An article on a new white paper has shown that Chinese food exports are the safest in the world, with the EU accepting 99.8%, the US 99.1% and Japan accepting 99.42% (better than the EU and the US rates of acceptance for Japan).
With the recent food safety scares originating largely in China, the Chinese government watchdog [...]

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US Govt panel calls for overhaul of food import policy

– 11th Sep 2007

A Food-Navigator.com article explains the results of a US government panel that was set up by President Bush to evaluate the current US food import policy.

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Supply Chain Complexities Highlighted in Latest Food Recall

– 3rd Sep 2007

According to an article from Associated Press 90 brands were caught up in the recent recall of canned chili, stew, spinach, petfood and frozen meat.

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