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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Final result from UK-wide beef survey confirmed
Tuesday 23 April 2013
The FSA has received confirmation of the final result for the remaining sample taken as part of the Agency’s UK-wide sampling programme of beef products. The product had been withdrawn from sale following an initial test.
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Views wanted on chia seeds
Tuesday 23 April 2013
Two companies have asked the FSA's expert advisers on novel foods to consider applications for chia seeds to be approved for use in the European Union (EU) under the simplified approval procedure. A novel food is a food or food ingredient that does not have a significant history of consumption within the EU before 15 May 1997.
