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E. coli O157 strikes again

2 August 2016 | By Stephanie Anthony, Editor, New Food

Health Protection Scotland (HPS) is investigating 16 confirmed cases of E. coli O157, associated with eating blue cheese made from unpasteurised milk...

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FSS appoints Professor Norval Strachan as Chief Scientific Adviser

23 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer

Food Standards Scotland (FSS) has announced that it has appointed Professor Norval Strachan as its first Chief Scientific Adviser...

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FSS survey finds salt intakes reducing in Scotland

23 March 2016 | By Victoria White

However, FSS says that intakes are still 30% higher than the recommended 6g per day, with two-thirds of adults in Scotland still eating too much salt...

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FSS agrees radical measures to improve the Scottish diet

20 January 2016 | By Victoria White

FSS has accepted the suggestion of giving manufacturers and retailers 12 months in which to come up with an alternative acceptable solution to a sugar tax...

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Festive food safety campaign launched by FSS

14 December 2015 | By Victoria White

The campaign uses tongue-in-cheek humour to get the food safety message across, featuring Santa Claus stricken by a bout of food poisoning...

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FSS recommends new Scottish Dietary Goals

9 December 2015 | By Victoria White

The proposed revised goals are to reduce sugar to 5% of total energy, increase dietary fibre intake to 30g per day, and to maintain total carbohydrate at 50% of total energy with no more than 5% total energy from sugar...

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Food Standards Scotland launches #lookatthelabel campaign

5 November 2015 | By Victoria White

Food Standards Scotland has launched the awareness-raising campaign encouraging consumers to spend longer looking at food labelling...

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Food crime unit set up for Scotland

28 September 2015 | By Victoria White

The new unit which will be responsible for surveillance and detection of fraud and deliberate non-compliance within the food chain...

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2015 Feed and Food Law Codes of Practice (Scotland) updated

17 April 2015 | By Victoria White

Scottish Ministers have approved the update to the 2015 Feed and Food Law Codes of Practice (Scotland) to reflect the creation of Food Standards Scotland...

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