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• Appointments to the FSA Board

  Tuesday 21 May 2013

  The Food Standards Agency has announced the appointment of Roland Salmon to its Board and as Chair of the Welsh Food Advisory Committee; the reappointment of Henrietta Campbell to the Board and as Chair of the Northern Ireland Food Advisory Committee for a second term, and the extension of Sue Atkinson’s contract to the end of December 2013.

• Ground-breaking study into peanut allergy

  Friday 17 May 2013

  Do you have a peanut allergy? You could be part of a ground-breaking clinical study commissioned by the FSA that will identify, for the first time, how sensitivity to peanut is altered by external factors including exercise and stress.

• FSA open Board meeting: 4 June 2013

  Friday 17 May 2013

  The next FSA open Board meeting is being held at the Agency's headquarters: Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NH. It will begin at 1pm on Tuesday 4 June 2013 and will be chaired by Agency Chair Jeff Rooker. You can attend in person or watch it live online.

• EFSA call to renew panel membership

  Friday 17 May 2013

  The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched a call to renew the membership of its scientific panel on food additives and nutrient sources added to food (ANS) and scientific panel on food contact materials, enzymes, flavourings and processing aids (CEF).

• FSA to co-fund food research

  Thursday 9 May 2013

  The Food Standards Agency is joining up with the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) to co-fund innovative research on food safety through the TSB’s competition Nutrition for Life – Providing Safe and Healthy Food.

• Commission proposes revisions to food and feed regulations

  Wednesday 8 May 2013

  The European Commission has published proposals to change the current legislation governing all official controls in the food and agriculture industries. The proposed plans will potentially affect all organisations involved in the production, manufacture, supply and regulation of food, feed, live animals, plants and plant reproductive material.

• Chair of the Food Standards Agency

  Wednesday 8 May 2013

  The Secretary of State for Health, the Ministers for Health in Scotland and Wales and the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland are looking to appoint a Chair to the Food Standards Agency (FSA).

• Attitudes to treatments surveyed

  Wednesday 1 May 2013

  The risk of food poisoning can be reduced by using slaughterhouse decontamination treatments on raw meat. Consumers have given the FSA their views on which treatments they would find acceptable.

• April issue of FSA e-News published

  Wednesday 24 April 2013

  The latest issue of FSA e-News, which is now available online, includes news and updates on some of the Agency’s activities over the past month.