Wester Lawrenceton Farm Ltd has recalled various batches of Carolla and Caerphilly cheese due to contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria is a bacterium that causes food poisoning. The Agency has issued a Food Alert for Information.
Heineken UK has withdrawn cans of Murphy’s Draught Irish Stout with a ‘best before’ date of 31 December 2010 and a batch code of L9348, because the product has been incorrectly packaged in Murphy?s Draught Style Stout Pasteurized Beer cans. The mislabelled cans do not mention that the product contains barley gluten.
The Food Standards Agency is this week hosting an international conference to identify new ways of reducing the levels of the food bug campylobacter in UK chicken.
Following a public consultation in the summer of 2009, the Food Standards Agency has today recommended that food manufacturers reduce saturated fat in foods such as biscuits, cakes, buns, chocolates and added sugar in soft drinks.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in Scotland has produced advice for the farming industry, highlighting the primary production food and feed hygiene requirements of EC Food Hygiene Regulation (852/2004) and EC Feed Hygiene Regulation (183/2005). The advice is in ‘question and answer’ format.
The Government has today published its response to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee report into nanotechnologies and food. The Food Standards Agency welcomes the committee’s report and its recommendations, many of which are already being taken forward.
The Government has today published its response to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee report into nanotechnologies and food. The Food Standards Agency welcomes the committee’s report and its recommendations, many of which are already being taken forward.
The Agency has welcomed the publication of new guidance to help food businesses determine the shelf life of ready-to-eat foods by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and the Chilled Food Association (CFA), working in collaboration with the Food Standards Agency.
The Agency has welcomed the publication of new guidance to help food businesses determine the shelf life of ready-to-eat foods by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and the Chilled Food Association (CFA), working in collaboration with the Food Standards Agency.
The Food Standards Agency is seeking views on new date-marking guidance it has drawn up to assist industry when deciding appropriate date marks to use on food products.