The Department for Education and the Food Standards Agency with support from the Office of Health Improvement and Disparities commissioned this research to support the School Food Standards Compliance Pilot.
This Strategic Assessment is intended to support strategic decision-making and anticipatory policy design.
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
A list of commodity codes within FSA's remit that are allocated into categories under Food, Feed, Products of animal origin, food not of animal origin and non-food items.
The risk to vulnerable consumers from Listeria monocytogenes in ready to eat smoked fish and survey of knowledge of, and behaviours towards, smoked fish consumption.
This is the interim report for the completion of objective 1.2.
A Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) to understand more about how other regulators have approached regulatory change programmes.
A hazard identification examining the potential hazards to the consumer in the consumption of cultured meat.
This document provides a technical summary of the ‘Optimising Evidence Use in Policy and Practice: Shifting Toward Healthy and Sustainable Diets’ project, including the context, methods, results and discussion of the results for the project.
This report explores the journey that food takes from suppliers to end consumers in the community food provision sector in the UK, to understand what support community providers might need in relation to food safety.
Risk question: What is the risk in terms of allergy to UK consumers if sunflower oil is substituted in food with refined rapeseed oil without rapeseed being labelled on the packaging?
Risk question: What is the risk of food, food contact materials, or food packaging being a source or transmission route of SARS-CoV-2 for UK consumers?
The FSA is working with partners in the UK and the EU to reduce cadmium levels in food where possible. The FSA undertakes and publishes various studies of cadmium levels in food and agrees appropriate legislation to promote food safety.
Secondary analysis research using the data from the first four waves of the Food and You survey.
Stage I of the study (completed August 2013) aimed to assess the current baseline level of allergen information provided for loose (not pre-packed) foods. Stage II of the study (completed March 2014) further explored the levels of understanding of the new requirements and the challenges businesses anticipate in complying with these.
This research project provided a method validated between laboratories to determine the concentration of nonylphenol in food contact materials and levels present, if any, in packaged foods.
This research project aimed to identify chemicals specific to active and intelligent packaging on the UK market and the extent to which they may migrate into food.
The objectives of this work were to allow total dietary intakes to be estimated, examine whether it is possible to distinguish between environmental and food contact material sources of phthalates in foods, and to establish the ranges of phthalates concentrations in food.
The project has identified suitable marker compounds in recycled paper and board and in recycled polyethylene (PET) plastic, to ascertain the efficiency of recycling cleaning. Suitable analytical method for these markers has also been developed.
APHA have updated their existing quantitative risk assessment model to refine the estimate of VTEC O157 within a burger as it is rapidly cooked to rare or medium in a domestic setting. Following this study, we commissioned RIVM to undertaken a further thermodynamic modelling study in early 2015.
Food and You is our flagship consumer survey, find out about our secondary analysis projects based on data from Waves 1-3, conducted from 2010-2014.
This project investigated the survivability of Mycobacterium bovis and relevant Verocytotoxin-producing E.coli serotypes, such as O157:H7, through the manufacture of raw milk cheeses which are made in the UK.
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.