Identifying online display of Food Hygiene Rating Scheme ratings
A project exploring whether food businesses are currently displaying their Food Hygiene Rating Scheme ratings online and the quality of those online displays.
What are the risks and opportunities presented by shifts and disruptions in the food system, including new and emerging technologies, and how should we regulate food in the future?
The overarching aim of this Area of Research Interest (ARI) is to support the FSA’s response to emerging challenges and opportunities in a timely and effective manner to ensure we are an effective regulator in the UK food system. This means identifying current and future disruptive trends and changes and understanding what they might mean for the UK food system and how it impacts the FSA’s remit. This can encompass a broad range of topics including:
- horizon scanning activities in the near term, including support to incidents management
- longer-term strategic forecasting and futures work
- research into specific thematic areas that have been identified as presenting strategic challenges or opportunities
- mapping the food system and identifying vulnerabilities and interactions within it.
The outputs of this ARI will inform strategic and policy decision making in the FSA to help us be an effective regulator in a swiftly changing environment. The outputs will also often act to identify specific issues that might be of interest to other ARI and require further research and analysis under their auspices.
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Food Hygiene Rating Scheme Online Display in Wales: Research report
This report explores consumer expectations around the online display of Food Hygiene Ratings Scheme ratings and intends to inform the development of best practice.
Food System Strategic Assessment 2023
This Strategic Assessment is intended to support strategic decision-making and anticipatory policy design.
Online display of food hygiene ratings by food businesses in Wales
Report exploring regulators views about proposals to introduce mandatory online display of food hygiene ratings by food businesses in Wales.
Exploring methods of measuring and collecting data relating to imported food production standards
This report gives a detailed understanding of the current data and literature landscape regarding imported food standards, with a particular focus on data availability around three themes: animal welfare, environmental sustainability, and nutritional composition
The Future of Animal Feed
Future of protein sources in livestock feeds: implications for sustainability and food safety
Vulnerabilities in the Animal By-Products Food System
Rapid evidence assessment on the vulnerabilities in the Animal By-Products Food System.
Honey authenticity: collaborative data sharing feasibility study
Unlike other food products at risk of adulteration, which are made from harvested produce such as olives or grapes, honey is sourced from free roaming bees and their hives, which are not always pinned to a fixed location.
Consumer insights tracker report: key findings from December 2021 to March 2022
This publication provides a summary of the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) latest consumer insights tracker data.
Food Business Operators: Impact of a Changing Landscape
This report summarises the findings from qualitative research with 30 small and micro Food Business Operators (FBOs) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Understanding platform businesses in the food ecosystem
This report takes a snapshot of platform businesses in the food ecosystem as they operate today, as well as related changes in the industry. We know that the landscape will continue to shift and evolve, and it is our responsibility as the regulator to understand and adapt to those changes in the coming years.
Food in the digital platform economy – making sense of a dynamic ecosystem
This report assesses the implications of the increasingly innovative ecosystem of food service business models and online solutions, on the UK food system over the coming years.
Food in the platform economy
Research exploring if existing FSA resources can be joined into a tool to assess food safety and integrity risks in the context of the platform economy.
Emerging Technologies that will impact on the UK food system
A rapid evidence assessment of the emerging technologies considered most likely to have an impact on the UK food system and food safety over the coming decade.
Food in a Pandemic
This report explores people’s experiences of Covid-19 to better understand how a new food environment created during the pandemic has impacted the public’s behaviours and preferences
Market and safety analysis of alternatives to plastic food packaging
This project was undertaken to investigate the health and economic implications of plastic food packaging alternatives. It is designed to facilitate an evidence-based, coordinated response to the proliferation of plastic alternatives, one that considers balancing consumer safety with innovation.
Social media listening: emerging trends
A social science research project studying what people say about food on social media to identify emerging food trends.
Food and climate change: A review of the effects of climate change on food within the remit of the Food Standards Agency
This report reviewed a range of relations between food and climate change, including food waste and nutrition, and how society's evolving attitudes to climate change may impact on both nutrition and food safety.