Increasing Consumer Awareness of UK Hygiene Ratings – Is Prevention Better...
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has recently published the results of its biannual public attitudes tracker. The results show that the top food safety concern for respondents is food hygiene when...
View ArticleUK Magistrates’ Courts granted the power to impose unlimited fines
The long awaited Section 85 of The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (the “Act”), which removes the fine limits that Magistrates’ Courts can impose for serious offences, came...
View ArticleNut Imposters: Increased number of EU and US recalls relating to nut products...
At the end of May 2015, Stericycle Expert Solutions released its European & US Recall Index and Notification reports. In the EU Recalls and notifications dropped in the first 3 months of 2015 but,...
View ArticleUK Judicial Review of Official Veterinarian over Beef Carcase: Food Standards...
On 2 July, the Administrative Court ruled in the Food Standard Agency’s (FSA’s) favour over a decision by an FSA veterinary contractor based at a slaughterhouse (following an inspection by a Meat...
View ArticleNew health and safety sentencing guidelines published today – Huge increase...
The Sentencing Council published draft sentencing guidelines for health and safety, corporate manslaughter and food safety and hygiene offences on 13 November 2014. Following the closure of its...
View ArticleProp 65 Regulatory Update for the Food & Cannabis Industry: OEHHA Proposes...
Food has become a bigger and bigger target for enforcement under Prop 65 over the last few years, and acrylamide in particular has been the subject of scrutiny by both the California Office of...
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Cartel allegations in France regarding the concealed use of Bisphenol A in...
Bisphenol A is a chemical product which is considered an endocrine disruptor and, for that reason, has been banned from the food industry since 2015 by the French Food Safety Agency (FSA). Bisphenol...
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