The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which is the European Union?s scientific risk assessment body on food and feed safety, nutrition, animal welfare and plant protection and health, has launched a call for scientific experts to take part in a working group to review the quality of EFSA?s science.
Today’s open Board meeting at Aviation House, London, is now finished. A podcast and video-on-demand will be available on 13 May.
Some of the most well-known restaurant chains on the UK high street have agreed to work with the FSA to put healthy eating firmly on the menu for their customers.
The Food Standards Agency has appointed the Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC) as the UK?s National Reference Laboratory for genetically modified (GM) food and feed.
A report has been published today by the FSA Scotland (FSAS) on research that was led by Dr Ken Forbes, Department of Medical Microbiology at the University of Aberdeen. It investigated the key sources of campylobacter infection in Scotland, which will assist in the development of strategies to reduce the levels of food poisoning caused by this organism.
The Food Standards Agency is today launching an easy way to access wine standards information.
The next meeting of the Advisory Committee on Animal Feedingstuffs (ACAF) will be held in open session at the St George?s Hotel in Llandudno on Friday 5 June 2009, commencing at 9.30am.
The next FSA open Board meeting is being held at the Food Standards Agency?s headquarters: Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NH. It will begin at 2.30pm on Tuesday 12 May 2009 and will be chaired by Agency Chair Deirdre Hutton. If you are not attending in person, you can watch it live online or listen-in via a free phone number, 0800 0730228.
The Committee on Toxicity (COT) has today published its view on whether glucosamine, a popular food supplement, can cause hepatitis.
The Agency welcomes the final report on front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition signpost labelling, published today by an independent group of experts (the Project Management Panel).