Actions Arising – March 2025 Business Committee

Outcomes of retrospective reviews of the effectiveness of incident handling to be included in future updates when available. 

March 2025

Junior Johnson/Darren Whitby

Will incorporate updates to reviews/lessons to the Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Board (EPRRB).

Ruth Nolan to arrange a discussion about local authority delivery metrics with Rhian Hayward. 

March 2025

Ruth Nolan – Closed

Rhian Hayward discussed local authority delivery with officials during Board retreat in January 2025, who have shared slides for RAG bandings/thresholds for each measure.

Julie Pierce to provide a note to the Board on selected Science Council Projects once Terms of Reference are scoped.

March 2025

Julie Pierce - Closed

The FSA undertook 2 research projects to determine the cost/impact of food crime and then the NFCU:

• Cost of Food Crime (CoFC) Phase 1 - developed a framework to capture the full range of impacts that food crime has on the UK economy, and assessed the availability of data needed to provide an estimated cost   https://www.food.gov.uk/research/food-crime/the-cost-of-food-crime
• CoFC Phase 2 - building on the framework developed in Phase 1, a CoFC model   was  developed.  The total cost of food crime on the UK was estimated to be between £410 million and £1.96 billion per year. This is equivalent to between 0.07% and 0.33% of the UK food industry turnover each year. https://www.food.gov.uk/research/the-cost-of-food-crime-phase-2-project-brief-and-deliverables

Then SERD and NFCU considered options for further developing the research to fine tune the current estimated cost range of food crime. However, we agreed that this should not be prioritised because for it to be meaningful the research would need some more examples of food crime cases that have concluded. We review this every year as we have a broader range of food crime criminals convicted and sentenced to enhance the further research, but it does not score sufficiently highly to be taken forward at this time.

Action 2 – Intelligence-Led Working and Rollout of the new Food Standards Delivery Model (FSA BC 24/09/05)

CE to consider how to enable Board Member input into publications on Food Standards.

2/12/24

Katie Pettifer – Closed

Process in place for Board Members to input into national food standards priorities