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FSA Board Meeting - June 2026: Agenda and Papers
Newcastle upon Tyne
The agenda for this meeting includes:
- FSA Strategy: Annual Update on Progress Indicators
- Annual Science Update from FSA’s Chief Scientific Adviser
- The Risky Foods Framework – Options for the future
- Incidents & Resilience Annual Report 2025/26
- Annual Animal Welfare Report 2025/26
- Report from the Director for Northern Ireland
09:00 Chair's Introduction and Chair's Report
Professor Susan Jebb presents the minutes and actions from the previous FSA Board meeting in March 2026 and presents the Chair's report.
FSA 26/06/01 - Minutes of the Food Standards Agency Board Meeting – Wednesday 25 March 2026
FSA 26/06/02 - Actions Arising
09:20 Chief Executive’s Report to the Board (FSA 26/06/03)
Katie Pettifer presents the Chief Executive's report to the FSA Board. This paper will be added on 15 June 2026.
09:50 FSA Strategy: Annual Update on Progress Indicators (FSA 26/06/04)
Emily Antcliffe and David Holmes present a paper providing the third annual update on the high-level progress indicators for our strategy, ‘Food you can trust,’ agreed by the Board in March 2022.
FSA 26/06/04 - FSA Strategy: Annual Update on Progress Indicators
10:10 Annual Science Update from FSA’s Chief Scientific Adviser (FSA 26/06/05)
Professor Ian Young presents his first annual report to the Board as the Food Standards Agency’s Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA).
FSA 26/06/05 - Annual Science Update from FSA’s Chief Scientific Adviser
10:40 The Risky Foods Framework – Options for the future (FSA 26/06/06)
Rebecca Sudworth and James Cooper present a recap of the Risky Foods Framework, as agreed by the Board in 2016, exploring how the framework has been used in practice for Raw Drinking Milk and less than thoroughly cooked burgers.
FSA 26/06/06 - The Risky Foods Framework - Options for the Future
11:00 Break
11:20 Incidents and Resilience Annual Report 2025/26 (FSA 26/06/07)
Junior Johnson and Darren Whitby introduce this paper, which sets out the work done by the FSA with regulatory partners, government and industry to manage food and feed safety incidents over the past year and describes how we are improving our capability.
FSA 26/06/07- Incidents & Resilience Annual Report 2025/26
11:50 Annual Animal Welfare Report 2005/26 (FSA 26/06/08)
A paper updating the Board on the FSA’s delivery of animal welfare controls in slaughterhouses in England and Wales during 2025/26, and on related activity across farms and transport.
FSA 26/06/08 - Annual Animal Welfare Report 2005/26
12:20 Report from the Director for Northern Ireland (FSA 26/06/09)
Andy Cole introduces a high-level overview of the work of the FSA in Northern Ireland over the last year.
FSA 26/06/09 - Report from the Director for Northern Ireland
12:40 Report from the Chair of the Business Committee (INFO 26/06/01)
This paper will be added on 15 June 2026.
12:50 Report from the Chair of ARAC (INFO 26/06/02)
This paper will be added on 15 June 2026.