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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published guidance to assist food businesses in responding to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak...

The Grocery Code Adjudicator (GCA) has provided the following 4 guiding principles to assist retailers and suppliers deliver continuity of supply to consumers, as far as this remains possible, given significant pressures on staffing and some customer buying habits during the COVID-19 outbreak...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) of COVID-19 has now categorised COVID-19 ‘pandemic’ status...

Worldwide news continues to report additional cases of coronavirus or Covid-19 daily, amid warnings from the World Health Organisation (WHO) of COVID-19 as a potential “global health emergency”...

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF), supported by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published new Guidance on 'Allergen'-Free and Vegan claims...

The Court of Appeal judgment in Kabab-I SAL (Lebanon) v Kout Food Group (Kuwait) [2020] EWCA Civ 6 was handed down 20 January 2020...

In recent months there has been many events that would have a profound impact on food production for businesses directly and indirectly affected...

The judgement in Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH & Co. KG v Queisser Pharma GmbH & Co. KG was published on 30 January 2020 looking at the meaning of the word ‘accompanying’ under  Article 10(3) of EU Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation 1924/2006 [the Regulation.]...

Cow & Gate and Tesco this month launched a voluntary recall of 15 varieties of baby food on a precautionary basis over concerns the products had been tampered with...

From 1 October 2021, Prepacked for Direct Sale (PPDS) food will need to have a label with a full ingredients list with allergenic ingredients emphasised within it under The Food Information (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2019...

16 outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have been reported in poultry farms, affecting a variety of poultry species (ducks, geese, turkeys, hens) in four affected EU Member States (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania)...

The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) has published an update on the progress made by the Co-operative Group Limited (Co-op) towards following the recommendations set out in the investigation report...