Rising food prices, regulatory uncertainties and challenges from international trade deals post-Brexit will conspire to create a “perfect storm” that threatens to rain on the UK food industry’s parade.
Microbiological food safety, allergen risk, and novel technologies are among the top areas of priority for the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the forthcoming year.
Consumers remain concerned over the use of nanomaterials in the food industry but appear less anxious about employing the technology in packaging than ingredient formulation, a UK report has said.
The UK Food Standards Agency has made recommendations to the
European Commission pushing for new measures to prevent very high
levels of unnecessary water being added to chicken and an end to
'ripping the consumer off'.
New guidance aimed at ensuring UK consumers are not bluffed into
buying rice incorrectly labelled as 'basmati' has been published
this week by the UK Food Standards Agency.
Recruitment is over for the executive director of the new European
Food Safety Authority (EFSA) with the announcement yesterday that
Geoffrey Podger has had the all clear from the European
Parliament's Environment Committee -...
A series of research projects from the UK Food Standards Agency
have concluded that "it is extremely unlikely that genes from
genetically modified (GM) food can end up in bacteria in the gut of
people who eat them," the...
A third of Welsh consumers question the accuracy of food labels,
and more than a quarter find labels difficult to understand,
according to a survey by the UK Food Standards Agency.
A new independent report published by the UK Food Standards Agency
indicates how food labels could be made clearer, more informative
and more user-friendly.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) is advising consumers to avoid
batches of certain specific helva products following tests that
have found them to be contaminated with the food bug salmonella.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has adopted an AOAC
international method to authorise the labelling of inulin as a
fibre. The move comes after several...
