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FSA publishes findings on British attitudes to new food technologies 04 Mar 2010

The Food Standards Agency has published its findings from FSA-funded questions in the 2008 British Social Attitudes survey.

March 2010 issue of Food Science & Technology Journal just published! 04 Mar 2010

Press Release from the Science Council - Want to be a Scientist? It could be you 03 Mar 2010

EFSA opinion on health claims published 02 Mar 2010

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published its second batch of opinions on a wide variety of health claims submitted by food businesses from across the UK and other EU member states.

FSA - Ensuring safe food and healthy eating for all conference - view online 25 Feb 2010

Voluntary country of origin labelling code for pork 25 Feb 2010

A new country of origin labelling (COOL) code of practice for pork has been introduced in the UK. The voluntary code, drawn up by the Pig Meat Supply Chain Task Force aims to provide clear information about country of origin on packs of pork, bacon and ham.

FSA publish Science and Evidence Strategy 24 Feb 2010

Dairy Manifesto gives Blueprint for Action from Westminster 22 Feb 2010

Food for thought - career challenge for Scottish schools 19 Feb 2010

China forced to re-launch food safety drive 12 Feb 2010

China is launching a new national food safety drive following a wave of recent damaging revelations over melamine-tainted milk products in the country. The re-launch of the food safety campaign was forced on Beijing after the further discovery of products contaminated with melamine surfaced in recent weeks. These are believed to have been repackaged for sale and put back on the market instead of being destroyed after the 2008 scandal, whereby milk powder laced with melamine killed six children and sickened an estimated 300,000.