Tag: Food Standards Agency

A steady degradation of our food supply system

We can see something is wrong with the food system, and that things have been getting steadily worse over the last couple of decades or so, not least from the seriousness of rising cases of diet-related morbidities (cruelly exposed...

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Whatever the scenario, food safety will really matter

You can find all the presentations here from #OurFoodFuture event hosted by the Food Standards Agency on 18th February. All were interesting, perhaps none more so than Ladislav Miko talking about the scenarios they’ve been working on regarding EU...

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Food Standards Agency CEO Catherine Brown addresses our Annual Meeting

These are the slides Catherine Brown, the FSA’s CEO used when she addressed our first Annual Meeting held on 4th November 2015.

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Question and Answer for Catherine Brown . . .

Jim Parle: Why doesn’t everyone who sells food have to show their food standards hygiene rating?

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Catherine Brown Chief Exec FSA at our Annual Meeting (Part 3)

Catherine Brown Chief Exec FSA at Birmingham Food Council's Annual Meeting from podnosh

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Catherine Brown Chief Exec FSA at our Annual Meeting (Part 2)

Catherine Brown Chief Exec FSA at Birmingham Food Council's Annual Meeting from podnosh Tonight Catherine Brown from the Food Standards Agency is speaking at our annual meeting, these are some notes from her presentation: What can/should we do? It is...

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Catherine Brown Chief Exec FSA at our Annual Meeting (Part 1)

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FSA Chief Executive Catherine Brown to address our first Annual Meeting

On 4th November, Catherine Brown returns to Birmingham to address our first Annual Meeting. Mark Rogers will be chairing. Registration is via eventbrite here. It’s timely that Catherine returns to the city. Food safety and integrity is of increasing concern...

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Food Standards Agency: Birmingham City Council audit report

Last April, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) undertook an audit of Birmingham City Council. You can find it on-line here. The FSA undertook this audit “due to ongoing concerns arising from the Authority’s past and present submissions of key...

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How hygienic are food businesses in Birmingham?

Birmingham’s Environmental Health Officers have a responsibility to inspect the hygiene standards of 7,500 food business across Birmingham. Leaving aside discussion about the scale of this task relative to the size of Birmingham’s Environmental Health team, what do the inspections tell...

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