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While most of Scotland’s food industry remains legitimate, Food Standards Scotland has noted that there are a small minority of individuals ‘willing to cut corners and take advantage of the pandemic’.
Food Standards Scotland (FSS) is highlighting the risks of lead sources on farms, after reports to its Scottish Food Crime and Incidents Unit (SFCIU) in the last three months have already surpassed the whole of the last recording year.
New Food finds out more about IFST’s COVID-19 focused advisory group in an interview with Dr Rachel Ward, Scientific Policy Director.
From fake booze to adulterated tuna; Ron McNaughton, Head of Food Standards Scotland’s Food Crime and Incidents Unit, explains how it is working with partners worldwide in the fight against food crime.
Tina Potter, Head of Incidents at the Food Standards Agency (FSA), tells New Food how food businesses in the UK should be complying to regulatory standards that not only protect the health of consumers, but can prevent cases from ever occurring.
Food Standards Scotland has said it is collaborating with numerous Scottish businesses to raise awareness of food crime.
Will Munro from Food Standards Scotland and Silvia Gratz from The Rowett Institute present a review of a workshop held in 2018, which aimed to capture views from different stakeholders on the current state of mycotoxin monitoring in Scotland and beyond, and identify potential areas of concern.
Launched back in 2015, the SFCIU has already had some notable successes in the challenge of combating food fraud, as the unit’s head Ron McNaughton explains.
A group providing outside perspective to the joint review by the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland has met for the first time.
Two weeks on from its first ever conference, Heather Kelman of Food Standards Scotland (FSS) writes about the state of sugar consumption in the country, what has been done to tackle it and what role the FSS will play.
21 February 2018 | By
In the wake of a handful of highly-publicised concerns over food hygiene practices at meat processing plants, the FSA, FSS and meat industry figures have released a joint statement.
In light of the Fipronil in eggs investigation ongoing across Europe, Food Standards Scotland offers its reaction to the challenges we face.
Scotland’s food body is giving advice to farmers to help prevent lead poisoning in their livestock.
29 March 2017 | By Food Standards Scotland
Food Standards Scotland fully supports report that concludes that Dunsyre Blue cheese was the source of the E. coli O157 outbreak
15 November 2016 | By New Food
FSS issues a revised statement for local authorities updating that of 15 September 2016 in relation to cheese products produced by Errington Cheese Ltd...
