national - News - safefood Knowledge Network2024-03-28T09:08:46Zhttps://safefoodkn.ning.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/nationalUK National Food Strategy - Part One is publishedhttps://safefoodkn.ning.com/profiles/blogs/uk-national-food-strategy-part-one-is-published2020-08-18T15:09:20.000Z2020-08-18T15:09:20.000Zsafefoodhttps://safefoodkn.ning.com/members/safefood<div><p>The Environment Secretary Michael Gove appointed<span> </span><a href="https://www.nationalfoodstrategy.org/henry-dimbleby-2020/" target="_blank">Henry Dimbleby</a><span> </span>to conduct this year-long review, and to then set out my recommendations within six months of its completion. Government will then publish an ambitious, multi-disciplinary National Food Strategy, the first of its kind for 75 years, in the form of a White Paper.</p>
<p>Part One of the UK National Food Strategy has been <a href="https://www.nationalfoodstrategy.org/partone/" target="_blank">published; </a>the recommendations cover two main themes:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.foodauthenticity.uk/blog/uk-national-food-strategy-part-one-is-published?utm_source=ning&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20aug_JulHighlights_NationalFoodStrategy" target="_blank">continue reading</a></p></div>Expansion of the National Food Crime Unithttps://safefoodkn.ning.com/profiles/blogs/expansion-of-the-national-food-crime-unit2019-11-07T14:23:01.000Z2019-11-07T14:23:01.000Zsafefoodhttps://safefoodkn.ning.com/members/safefood<div><h3><strong><em>Sean Daly of the National Food Crime Unit describes how the NFCU will expand to help tackle food crime in the food sector.</em></strong></h3>
<p>Tackling fraud in the food supply chain (food crime) is a challenge for the whole food and drink industry. From farm to fork, the effects of food crime have the potential to impact everyone in the supply chain including suppliers, manufacturers, retailers and ultimately consumers.</p>
<p>The Food Standards Agency’s National Food Crime Unit aims to help protect businesses and consumers from fraudulent supply chains through building relationships with industry, delivering crime prevention initiatives and conducting thorough, proportionate investigations where necessary. This is to support the Food Standard Agency to deliver its overarching strategy that “food is safe and is what it says it is”.</p>
<p><a href="https://fstjournal.org/news/expansion-national-food-crime-unit/1373" target="_blank">continue reading</a></p></div>national Food Strategyhttps://safefoodkn.ning.com/profiles/blogs/national-food-strategy2019-08-27T12:23:43.000Z2019-08-27T12:23:43.000Zsafefoodhttps://safefoodkn.ning.com/members/safefood<div><p><span>No part of our economy matters more than food. It is vital for life, and for pleasure. It shapes our sense of family, community and nation: cooking and eating together is perhaps the defining communal act. The food system also provides jobs for one in eight of us.</span></p>
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<p><span><a href="https://www.nationalfoodstrategy.org/" target="_blank">continue reading</a></span></p></div>Minister John Halligan launches Ireland’s National Framework on the Transition to an Open Research Environmenthttps://safefoodkn.ning.com/profiles/blogs/minister-john-halligan-launches-ireland-s-national-framework-on-t2019-07-19T10:51:10.000Z2019-07-19T10:51:10.000Zsafefoodhttps://safefoodkn.ning.com/members/safefood<div><p><span>Minister John Halligan T.D., Minister of State for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development at the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation and the Department of Education and Skills today (10 July) launched</span> <a href="http://norf-ireland.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/NORF_Framework_10_July_2019-2.pdf">Ireland’s National Framework</a> <span>on the Transition to an Open Research Environment. </span></p>
<p><a href="https://dbei.gov.ie/Djei/en/News-And-Events/Department-News/2019/July/20190710.html" target="_blank">continue reading</a></p></div>