The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has today published its Consolidated and its Westminster Annual Report and Accounts for the past financial year. These cover our performance and activities in 2020/21 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland at a net
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Study of 20,000 consumers across 18 European countries reveals trust in the food sector has increased over the course of 2020, yet the majority of consumers don’t consider the sector to be working in the public interest
A healthy planet and healthy animals go hand in hand to protect humans from pandemics, says a new United Nations report.
The report warns that diseases such as COVID-19 that can jump from animals to humans are more likely to emerge as animals’ habit
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has today published its Northern Ireland Annual Report and Accounts for the past financial year. The report covers our performance and activities in 2019/20 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland at a net cost of £
Professor Guy Poppy, our outgoing Chief Scientific Adviser has today published his final CSA report focusing on the role of science and evidence in our risk analysis process.
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The Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) has released its “Foodborne Illness Source Attribution Estimates for 2017.” The annual report estimates the degree to which four pathogens—Salmonella, Escherichia coli O157, Listeria monocyt
The FSA has today published official statistics on food law enforcement by local authorities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for the year ending March 2019. The information, provided by local authorities and compiled by the FSA, gives a detail
The FSA has today published official statistics on food law enforcement by local authorities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for the year ending March 2019. The information, provided by local authorities and compiled by the FSA, gives a detail
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has today published its Annual Report and Accounts for the past financial year. It covers our performance and activities in 2018/19 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland at a net cost of £98.7 million.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has today issued its Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways. The report provides policy-makers acr
The report on the use of the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed published today shows that a total of 3832 notifications of food or feed risks were reported to the European Commission in 2017. 942 of these were classified as "alert", indicating a s
The third Joint Meeting of the ECDC’s Food- and Waterborne Disease and Zoonoses Network and of the EFSA’s Zoonoses Monitoring Data Network was held on 16 and 17 October 2017 in Parma. The meeting was constructed around the principle of ‘One health ap
There were double the amount of Salmonella outbreaks detected in Denmark last year compared to 2016, according to the 2017 annual report on zoonoses.
A total of 63 foodborne disease outbreaks with 1,151 patients were recorded last year compared to 49
This technical report reflects the outcome of the mammalian toxicology experts’ meeting on general recurring issues noted during the EFSA peer reviews of pesticide active substances under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009. The main issues identified were
A Europe-wide research effort is ramping up efforts to understand the risk to EU food supplies from climate change, after a report revealed that common staples are under threat from water scarcity and drought in the developing world.
The report, enti
safefood recently carried-out research whose aim was to provide a comprehensive overview (or "map") of the dairy supply chain on the island of Ireland. The project involved a review of the literature and a series of semi-structured interviews with a
The number of "Shiga toxin-producing E. coli" (STEC) cases in Scotland decreased slightly in 2017 but remains high compared to other UK countries, according to Health Protection Scotland.
A total of 167 cases of E. coli O157 were reported to the agen
According to Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, EFSA has reviewed the maximum residue levels (MRLs) currently established at European level for the pesticide active substance napropamide. To assess the occurrence of napropamide residues in pl
Ms. Stephanie Heaney has a BSc. Degree in Food Quality, Safety and Nutrition and is currently a PhD student within the Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University in Belfast. The safefood Training and Mobility Funding Programme provided h
