Restaurants Blog

The UK-wide Scores on the Doors Steering Group’s Working Group on Consistency Issues will meet for the first time on Thursday 28 January.

People who regularly use semi-skimmed milk would be happy to switch to drinking 1% fat milk, according to research published by the Agency to coincide with the launch of the second phase of its saturated fat campaign. 1% fat milk, which is on sale in most supermarkets, contains about half the fat of semi-skimmed.

To support the second phase of our saturated fat campaign, the Agency today launches a phone application that enables you take a 21-day challenge to help you cut down on saturated fat.

The next FSA open Board meeting is being held at the Agency’s headquarters: Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NH. It will begin at 1pm on Tuesday 26 January 2010 and will be chaired by Agency Chair Jeff Rooker. You can attend in person, watch it live online or listen-in via a free phone number.

The Food Standards Agency has published new research about country of origin labelling.

Food safety authorities in Australia and New Zealand informed the Food Standards Agency last year about high levels of iodine in a soya drink called ‘Bonsoy’, which some people use as an alternative to milk. We are issuing an update on what is happening.

The Food Standards Agency has today published guidance on internal monitoring for local authority food services. ?Making every inspection count? draws on experience gained from the Agency’s programme of auditing local authority food services.

The FSA is holding a major conference to discuss its future work and challenges. The ‘FSA10: Ensuring safe food and healthy eating for all’ conference, which will be held in London on 24 February, will bring together stakeholders from around the UK to discuss how to ensure safe food and healthy eating for consumers.

The Food Standards Agency in Scotland has launched a joint consultation with the Scottish Government on proposed new BSE regulations. The new regulations will update and replace the 2006 Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (Scotland) Regulations (as amended), taking into account decisions made by the FSA Board concerning the slaughter of cattle aged over thirty months (OTM).

In May 2009, Tim Smith, Chief Executive of the Food Standards Agency, commissioned Jan Polley of the National School of Government to review for him the proposed arrangements for the approval of meat establishments in Great Britain.