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uk food safety agency in fraud crackdown
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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 new unit has a wider remit and addresses the need for a wider focus when tackling food fraud, ” she said. consumer deception the fsa defines food fraud as being committed when “food is deliberately placed on the market, for financial gain, with the intention of deceiving the consumer”. this may take the form of selling products unfit for human consumption, such as those of unknown origin or which are past their sell-by-date; or misrepresenting food in some way, for example by substituting cheaper alternatives or making misleading statements about its source. the consumer watchdog which? claims that the fraudulent food market in the uk is estimated to be worth £7bn a year – accounting for around 10 per cent of the entire market. however, the fsa spokesperson said this estimate was speculative due to the illicit nature of food fraud, which she said can only be recorded once detected, thus making it difficult to accurately determine the true extent of food fraud within the uk. detection methods when asked whether the incidence of food and drink fraud has risen since the start of the credit crunch she said the agency was not aware of any worsening of counterfeit activity in the past few months and she claims that the many systems the agency has in place to detect fraud is helping to keep a lid on such activity. “our authenticity programme is one of the leaders in europe in developing state-of-the-art scientific methods to detect food fraud and misdescription in a wide range of foods, from dna to biochemical markers,” continued the spokesperson. she added that the fsa’s national fraud database led to a large seizure of bottles of counterfeit vodka in the london borough of haringey last year. the fsa claims that local authorities, industry and consumers have a vital role to play in tackling food fraud and it said that anyone who is aware of known, or suspected, food or feed fraud should contact the agency by emailing foodfraud ‘at’ foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk or by telephoning its fraud hotline at 0044 020 7276 8527. fraud incidents recent incidents of enforcement by local authorities on the issue include the prosecution of the director the rich complements ltd last year, after two lab samples showed two of the firm’s sandwich range did not contain cheese, but a non-dairy substitute called ‘cheese analogue’ which, costs about half of the wholesale price of real cheese. in 2006, essex trading standards successfully prosecuted two uk based rice importers, surya rice and basmati rice (uk), for supplying basmati brands containing substantial amounts of non-basmati grains. both companies were fined about £9,000 each. and in 2005, the uk newspaper the observer reported an investigation which revealed that some producers were passing non-organic food off as organic, which led to a number of prosecutions.
Source :Food Ingredients Food Science - Additives, Flavours, Starch
Date :
15
April
2009
Category :
Dairy Products
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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