Restaurants Blog

The Food Standards Agency today announced a series of changes in the way it is structured to better support its strategy for the next five years.

The Food Standards Agency is seeking a contractor, or contractors, to carry out research into future meat controls in the UK. The deadline for receiving applications is Monday 4 January 2010.

The Food Standards Agency Northern Ireland is making available an eatwell 2010 calendar, following the success of the version it produced for this year.

In Wales the Agency is supporting the Sports Council for Wales in its campaign to help win the battle of the bulge that?s stretching waistlines and budgets to breaking point.

The Co-op is recalling three of its Truly Irresistible Indian Cooking Sauces, because the acidity levels are too low. As the acidity levels are too low, this means micro-organisms may grow and the sauces will be past their best before the ‘best before’ date that appears on the jar. The Agency has issued a Food Alert for Information.

The FSA has set up an independent steering group to shape and manage the forthcoming consumer dialogue work on genetic modification (GM) in food that the Agency has been asked to lead on, on behalf of the Government. The steering group includes stakeholders with a variety of expertise and with differing views on GM.

The Food Standards Agency in Scotland and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency in conjunction with the Health Protection Agency have published a detailed study assessing people?s exposure to radiation from foods produced using seaweed in the North and West of Scotland.

The Food Standards Agency in Scotland and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency in conjunction with the Health Protection Agency have published a detailed study assessing people?s exposure to radiation from foods produced using seaweed in the North and West of Scotland.

The level of radioactivity people absorb through food remained below the EU legal limit during 2008, says a report published by the Food Standards Agency.

The level of radioactivity people absorb through food remained below the EU legal limit during 2008, says a report published by the Food Standards Agency.