Agency dispels food safety myths

/PRNewswire/ -- Eating prunes is officially beneficial for digestive health confirms the EU Commission in a final authorisation ruling today[1]. Prunes are now the only natural, whole and dried fruit to achieve an authorised health claim in the EU ...

Less than a year ago, concern over wasted food was almost imperceptible amidst U.S. government agencies. Tuesday, however, the United States joined the ranks of countries around the world who are taking food waste seriously. Kudos to USDA and EPA ...

Raids conducted in Girlington and Thornbury with the FSA

West Devon Borough Council Environmental Health Department has advised the Food Standards Agency that following the inspection of Dunn's Dairy, Beacon View Farm, Drewsteignton, Devon, EX6 6PF and the results of samples taken of the milk, there are ...

The Food Standards Agency is today confirming it has received a further 19,050 industry results from testing beef products for horse DNA. The Agency has also published the full report of the local authority testing programme. The new results show ...

UK - The UK's Food Standards Agency has launched a project to sequence the whole genome for campylobacter. The sequencing will be conducted on isolates archived from the Infectious Intestinal Disease 1(IID1 1993-1996) and Infectious Intestinal ...

Are you ready to cook safely? It's National Food Safety Week ( 10 - 16 June) and this year the Food Standards Agency is asking the question 'Are you ready to cook safely ?' Every year Environmental Health Officers from the Council's Food and ...

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is inviting comments from interested parties on the implications of Regulation (EU) No. 225/2012, which is an amendment of Regulation 183/2005. The consultation is expected to be of particular interest to feed ...