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The provision of ingredient labelling, claims, 'may contain' statements and claims for ‘free from’ on foods can be fraught with confusion...

Many companies in the food and agriculture sector are dependent on contractors or suppliers to help their business run smoothly...

The European Parliament Agriculture Committee last month voted in favour of terms used to describe meat products being reserved exclusively for products made from meat; therefore vegetarian and vegan burgers and sausages would be classified as “discs and tubes”...

The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) held a board meeting on 8 May where the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( DEFRA) consultation on the provision of information on allergens on prepacked food prepared for direct sale on food business premises (PPDS) was discussed and recommendations agreed for new legislation...

The European Parliament and the Council has reached an agreement on the European Commission's proposal to amend General Food Law Regulation...

On 24 April, the EU Commission adopted a new Regulation 2019/649 to set a maximum limit on the use of industrially produced trans-fat in foods in the EU...

The British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) and the Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) have jointly funded a project to provide research into whether a retail shelf-life of greater than 10 days can be applied to fresh chilled meat...

The 2018 report on the activities of the EU Food Fraud Network was published on 12 April and shows a significant increase in reported incidents; top categories of food reported were 'fish and fish products', followed by 'meat and meat products' and then 'fats and oils'...

The Food and You consumer survey (wave five) https://www.food.gov.uk/research/food-and-you/food-and-you-wave-five has just been published by the Food Standards Agency (FSA.)...

African Swine Flu (ASF) has impacted pig farming and pork production across China, Mongolia, Vietnam and Cambodia...

Natural England has withdrawn the general licences under which farmers and food producers could lawfully control birds that commonly cause serious damage to (and in some cases totally decimate) crops, such as pigeons and crows...

This week the Supreme Court found in favour of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in that an interpretation of Mechanically Separated Meat (MSM) should include that which had been previously known as Desinewed meat (DSM)...