The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is an independent government department in the United Kingdom set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 to protect the public's health and consumer interests in relation to food. This topic discusses current food health claims for nutrition (i.e., nutritional labeling, calorie information, dietetic food and food supplements, etc.)—as well as nutritional research (i.e., food management and counseling, food surveys, dietary surveys and regulation of scientific claims).
PepsiCo is recalling Tropicana Kids Orange Juice Drink multi-packs in the United Kingdom because they contain only microbiological-contamination water instead of orange juice blend, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) announced May 2. ...More
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) issued a warning not to consume raw sprouted seeds such as alfalfa, mung beans and fenugreek after French authorities linked sprouting seeds supplied by a British mail order company Thompson & Morgan to an Escherichia coli outbreak that ...More
The Food Standards Agency announced April 7 that radiation levels from the Fukushima nuclear plant accident in Japan are far too low to cause any concerns over the safety of any food in the United Kingdom. ...More
The Food Standards Agency and the Medical Research Council is seeking research proposals aimed at helping improve understanding of the biological mechanisms that cause food allergies. ...More
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) published new draft regulations in England that will implement two European directives that set criteria for the purity of four new food additives and one sweetener recently permitted for use in the European Union. Similar regulations are ...More
The Food Standards Agency (FSA), the UK poultry industry and major retailers have agreed a new target measure to reduce the levels of campylobacter in chickens by nearly 30 percent or 90,000 cases per year. ...More
Meat and milk from the offspring of cloned animals was cleared for sale in the United Kingdom on Dec. 7 by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) when it ruled the food does not present a health problem and does not need special labeling. ...More
An independent review by the General Advisory Committee on Science (GACS) has concluded that the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) 2009 review of the nutritional merits of organic vs. conventionally-produced food followed good practice at all stages. ...More
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