Food safety

Food safety advice

• Best before and use-by dates
• Raw drinking milk
• Handling flour and flour products safely
• BBQs
• Picnics
• Community cooking
• Providing food at charity events
• Christmas food hygiene
• Guidance for safe foraging
• Food safety after a flood
• Food safety in a power cut
• Food safety in a heatwave

Chemical food safety

• Food additives
• Acrylamide
• Arsenic in rice
• Radioactivity in food
• Irradiated food
• Lead-shot game
• BPA in plastic

Allergy and intolerance

• Food allergy guidance
• Advice for teenagers and young adults with a food allergy
• Sign up for allergy alerts
• Allergy related product recalls

Other safety issues

• Ultra-processed foods
• GM foods
• Genome editing
• DNP
• Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS)
• Fake alcohol

Related content

• Food hygiene
• Food poisoning
• Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)