Articles involving: Food Safety
20 Jun, 2025
Inefficiency and high FSA charges damage UK competitiveness
Food Safety, Industry,
At the FSA Board meeting this week it was unanimously agreed to work towards removing the discount on Official Veterinarian charges for large abattoirs but continue…
13 Jun, 2025
New ‘Super Ultra Processed” classification app launched
Diet & Health, Food Safety, Labelling,
Flora Southey over at Food Navigator has a good write-up of the new WISEcode app that aims to provide US consumers with a more nuanced understanding…
11 Mar, 2025
UK one step closer to re-gaining BSE Negligible Risk status
Food Safety, Trade,
We've had some good news recently as the Scientific Commission has recommended that the UK's application for BSE Negligible Risk status should be approved. This is…
07 Mar, 2025
New foot and mouth scare in Hungary just announced
Borders, Defra, Food Safety,
Breaking news in today that classic symptoms of foot and mouth disease were detected in a herd of 1400 cattle on a farm in Hungary. It's…
28 Feb, 2025
UK needs better border control and better traceability to halt meat crime
Borders, Defra, Food Safety,
In the news recently have been several stories that, together, serve to illustrate separate but related issues emerging in the meat supply chain. First we hear…
14 Feb, 2025
FSA official controls charges need urgent reform and modernisation
Food Safety, Industry,
This week, the Food Standards Agency announced a 17.7% price hike for Official Veterinarian charges to meat businesses and an 11.3% rise in the cost of…
14 Feb, 2025
Illegal meat seizures and foot and mouth scare should be a wake-up call
Borders, Farming, Food Safety, Imports,
The recent foot and mouth disease case in Germany has highlighted weaknesses in the UK’s biosecurity at borders, but we must make the distinction between legal…
17 Jan, 2025
UK Parliament debate on foot and mouth preparedness
Farming, Food Safety,
A debate in Parliament this week underscored the cross-party consensus on the importance of preventing Food and Mouth Disease from entering the UK. While MPs voiced…
16 Jan, 2025
Tougher measures needed to repel Foot and Mouth Disease
Food Safety, Imports,
In the battle to stop foot and mouth disease entering the UK, the Government has so far banned commercial imports of meat and dairy products from…
08 Jan, 2025
Government research office turns its attention to cultivated meat
Food Safety, Technology,
A new parliamentary research project has been approved to consider opportunities and challenges from the production of cultivated meat. The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology…
29 Nov, 2024
FSA publishes first overview of meat inspection charges review
Food Safety, Industry,
This week, the Food Standards Agency published papers ahead of their next board meeting including an evaluation of the Meat Charging Regime which includes an initial…
01 Nov, 2024
BMPA responds to FSA call for evidence on official controls charges
Food Safety,
In response to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) call for evidence regarding the impact of discounts on official control (OC) charges in the meat industry, BMPA has provided…
08 Oct, 2024
New FSA funding to study safety of lab-grown meat
Food Safety,
The Food Standards Agency has been awarded £1.6m to develop a framework to assess the safety of new cell-cultivated products. Reflecting on the news, BMPA's CEO,…
27 Sep, 2024
Tighter import rules welcome, but don’t go far enough
Food Safety, Imports, Pork,
Defra has announced that as of today (27 September) personal imports of pork products from the EU are to be banned unless they're produced to EU…
31 Aug, 2022
Defra announces tougher measures to keep African Swine Fever out of the UK
Borders, Food Safety,
Following recent pressure from BMPA and other industry groups, Defra has announced that there is to be a clamp down at UK borders on small consignments of pork…