The Food Standards Agency and Health Protection Agency (HPA) are investigating a recent increase in the number of cases of a certain type of salmonella in England and Wales. The increase in cases of Salmonella Enteritidis phage type (PT) 14b, since mid-August 2009, was noted by the HPA as part of its monitoring of infectious diseases.
The Agency has written to the editor of The Grocer to set the record straight about the publication of the Scientific Advisory Committee’s (SACN) draft report on energy. The report was published on 5 November.
The Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP) today announced the appointment of a new chair and a new expert committee member following a national recruitment exercise.
Five high street restaurant chains ? Burger King, KFC, McDonald?s, the Subway chain and Wimpy ? have today set out how they intend to take further steps to provide their customers with healthier choices.
The Agency has issued food safety advice for people who have been affected by the recent flooding.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is today publishing findings of a qualitative research project commissioned to explore public attitudes to genetic modification (GM). This report is timely and will be considered by the independent steering group that has been set up to shape and carry out the forthcoming GM Dialogue that the FSA has been asked to lead on, on behalf of government.
Teachers in Wales can now download a pack crammed full of resources to help equip pupils with the life skills and knowledge to make healthy and safer food choices.
The Food Standards Agency has today published the agenda and papers for the 26 November meeting of the UK-wide Scores on the Doors Steering Group, which is overseeing the development of the national six-tier scores on the doors scheme (and the two-tier scheme in Scotland).
An American company has applied to the Food Standards Agency for approval to market phosphated distarch phosphate as a novel food ingredient. A novel food is a food or food ingredient that does not have a significant history of consumption within the European Union before 15 May 1997.
Tesco has withdrawn two batches of its own-brand wholegrain brown rice because they might be contaminated with insects. The Agency has issued a Food Alert for Information.