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• FSA Board meeting papers published

  Friday 24 May 2013

  The agenda and papers for the next FSA open Board meeting have been published. The meeting is being held in London on Tuesday 4 June 2013. It will begin at 1pm and will be chaired by Agency Chair Jeff Rooker. You can attend in person or watch it live online.

• Appointments to the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food

  Friday 24 May 2013

  FSA Chair Jeff Rooker has announced the appointment of Dr Gary Barker as well as five reappointments to the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF). The ACMSF provides the Agency with independent advice on the microbiological safety of food.

• FSA welcomes changes to pig inspections

  Thursday 23 May 2013

  European member states have voted for new legislation to modernise the inspection system in pig slaughterhouses.

• EU votes to ban 3-acetyl-2,5-dimethylthiophene

  Wednesday 22 May 2013

  It has today been decided by the European Commission and European Union member states that the flavouring substance 3-acetyl-2,5-dimethylthiophene should be banned.

• ACAF open meeting 8 May 2013

  Wednesday 22 May 2013

  Stakeholders were given the opportunity to see the Advisory Committee on Animal Feedingstuffs at work and to ask questions at the committee's open meeting, held in the Grand by Thistle Hotel, Bristol, on 8 May 2013.

• 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.

• 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.