Consultations

This update provides information about the meeting of the newly merged Animal Nutrition & Veterinary Medicines Section of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF) held on 18-19 February 2016.

This update provides information about the meeting of the Animal Nutrition & Veterinary Medicines Section of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF) held on 8-9 March 2016.

The Food Standards Agency is carrying out a post implementation review of the Kitchenware (Conditions on Imports from China) Regulations 2011. Details of the review are available in a draft report.

This update provides information about the meeting of the Animal Nutrition & Veterinary Medicines Section of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF) held on 27-28 April 2016.

This update provides information about the meeting of the Animal Nutrition & Veterinary Medicines Section of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF) held on 23-24 May 2016.

This consultation seeks views on the enforcement of rules relating to novel foods for food businesses in England. The aim is to ensure effective, consistent and proportionate enforcement of the new novel foods Regulation (EU) 2015/2283.

The Food Standards Agency is updating its guidance on managing interests and any conflicts of interest for the FSA’s external scientific advisers

The Food Standards Agency is asking for comments on the draft Animal Feed (Basic Safety Standards) (England) Regulations 2018.

Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), Welsh Government and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) are seeking your views on a proposal which would amend domestic Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) legislation in England and Wales.

The European Commission is conducting stakeholder consultations this summer on regulatory proposals for mercury, acrylamide, 3-MCPD and Glycidyl Esters in food and cyanogenic glycosides in raw apricot kernels and bitter almonds.