Food Standards Agency

  • Pork found in Halal pasties

    THE FOOD Standards Agency (FSA) has called retailers and food suppliers in to an urgent meeting today, Monday 4th February.   The meeting has been organised following the discovery of pork DNA in Halal pies and pasties supplied to jails.…

  • No identifiable health benefits to organic?

    ACCORDING TO research from Stanford University published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, whilst organic food could cut your exposure to pesticides, it will not make you healthier.   Out of 200 studies there was no identifiable difference in nutritional…

  • Hard choice to swallow

    POLITICIANS FEAR the idea. Environmentalists love it. Consumers don’t understand it. And businesses are beginning to trial it. David Burrows investigates the controversial concept of sustainable diets.   Obesity and diet-related illness are on the increase. Fewer young people are…

  • Sandwiches need clearer labelling

    SANDWICHES CAN contain a fairly thick slice of daily guidelines amounts of fat and salt, according to a new report by Which?   The research, which focussed on sandwiches bought through retailers, found that contents varied so widely that a…

  • Footprint catches up with Sodexo’s Phil Hooper on the Responsibility Deal

    THE GOVERNMENT’S Public Health Responsibility Deal is one year old, and campaigners believe it is failing. A report by Which? last week claimed that voluntary agreements do not work and is now calling for legislation on mandatory calorie labelling out…

  • GM labelling rules

    PEOPLE TEND to leave their ethics at home when it comes to eating out, but that doesn’t exclude foodservice businesses from responsibilities to educate and inform.   As in retail, labelling laws apply to genetically modified (GM) food served by…