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the uk’s food standards agency (fsa) has said it is investigating claims that milk from a cloned cow has entered the nation’s dairy supply. the announcement comes after an unnamed dairy farmer told the international herald tribune that he was using milk from a cow bred from a clone as part of his daily production. fsa said that this would need to be considered for ‘novel food’ approval before it can be sold in the market.

the uk’s department of health yesterday insisted the country’s coalition government has yet to make a decision on the future of the food standards agency. reports this weekend in the uk suggested that the agency, the country’s food watchdog, would be disbanded. the fsa would see its functions move to the department of health and the department for environment, food and rural affairs, reuters said. however, the department of health said “no decision had been taken with the fsa”, although it added: “all arms-length bodies will be subject for a review.

now a decade old, the uk’s food standards agency is counting its achievements and scoping out new challenges ahead. it has set out a new strategy for science and evidence, which will underscore its methodologies for the next five years. the strategy was unveiled at a one-day conference in london yesterday to mark the 10th anniversary of the fsa, and describes activities the agency will carry out to gets the right evidence and uses it effectively to support its work on building food safety and encouraging healthy diets.

a new food fraud division will support local authorities to take swift action to stop illegal activity as well as helping them uncover cases where the consumer has been misled, announced the uk’s food standards agency (fsa). speaking to foodproductiondaily.com, an fsa spokesperson said that its new food fraud advisory unit builds on and takes over the work of the illegal meat task force (imtf), which supported illegal meat investigations over five years.

the uk’s food standards agency has added to its listing of companies that do not use the southampton-six colours, including cool drinks company, lakeland, montgomeryshire natural spring water products, plas farm ltd, rubicon drinks, and sunny delight beverage company. the colours were linked by a study at southampton university, published in the lancet in 2007, to hyperactivity in children.

e. coli in ground beef, melamine in infant formula, and salmonella in peanut butter - what is next? isn’t it about time the slices of the us food safety pie were taken back from the multiple federal agencies involved and surveillance placed under one roof? confidence in a system where 15 different agencies administer as many as 30 laws is ebbing with us politicians and food companies, following the recent salmonella scare linked to eight deaths, demanding an overhaul of how the sector is regulated.

the uk’s food standards agency (fsa) will have a new chair from next summer, as dame deirdre hutton has announced she will step down at the end of her term in july 2009. the fsa was set up in 2000 as part of a number of measures to improve food safety in the wake of the bse crisis. dame hutton has been at the helm since 2005. alan johnson, secretary of state for health, said that while dame hutton has been with the agency “it has become even more trusted by consumers and respected by industry as an independent guardian of our food.

the migration of formaldehyde into foods from food contact materials manufactured in the far east may still be a problem, according to a new fsa survey. the uk’s food standards agency (fsa) tested 50 samples of food contact material from the far east, and found that eight exceeded ec norms. “the results of this survey suggest that there may still continue to be a problem with some imports into the eu of melamine-ware from the far east,” stated the agency.

the uk’s food standards agency is advising that infants are not given rice drinks as a replacement for cows’ milk, breast milk, or infant formula, following a new study that indicates potential to exceed maximum intake. last year a study published in the journal environmental pollution analysed samples from three brands of pure baby rice formulae from different manufacturers, and found inorganic arsenic levels to range from 0.