May 7, 2020 | Coronavirus, Food Hygiene, News
The food safety standard organisation, BRCGS, has issued new guidance to food manufacturers amid concerns about the impact of Covid-19 on food production. According to the World Health Organisation, it is highly unlikely that people can contract the virus from food or...
Apr 15, 2020 | Food Hygiene, Food labelling, News
Co-op has been forced to recall packs of its sliced pepperoni after E. coli O157 was found in the product. The retailer is now displaying point-of-sale notices in all stores that are selling the pepperoni, with the notices explaining to customers why the product is...
Feb 28, 2020 | Food Hygiene, News
A new report from food industry specialist insurer, NFU Mutual, shows that more than 52,000 businesses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland could be faced with losing over a third of business, as 34% of people would turn away from premises displaying a food hygiene...
Oct 25, 2019 | Food Hygiene, News, Training and Education
A survey conducted by YouGov in association with Red Tractor Food Assurance Scheme has suggested that eight out of ten adults admit to taking food safety for granted. Two decades after salmonella and BSE outbreaks, over 2,000 UK adults were surveyed about the food...
Jun 24, 2019 | Food Hygiene, News
During the first visit of its kind, Cardiff Metropolitan University recently welcomed Hu Chunhua, Vice-Premier of the People’s Republic of China along with other senior politicians and VIPs from the People’s Republic of China and Welsh Government. His...
Jun 18, 2019 | Food Hygiene, News
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) are continuing to investigate foods linked to listeria infections in hospitals. This comes after the news that cases of listeria infection were found in six seriously ill hospital patients in England in...
