It is a well known fact that the media over-hypes everything as a way of making money. Although a bit of hysteria is normally harmless, the recent claims that children should not be given ham sandwiches in their lunchboxes hit a nerve with food hygiene specialists across the country.
The claim was that red and processed [...]
Zam Zam water is sacred to Muslims and cannot be legally exported from its source; the Well of Zam Zam in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. For this reason, the presence of small containers of “Zam Zam Water” the United Kingdom has caused many raised eyebrows amongst the food safety community – especially in this time of [...]
It has recently come to light, thanks to the Food Standards Agency, that a bullock over 48 months of age was slaughtered and put to market without having been tested for bovine spongiform encephalitis, BSE or mad cow disease as it is commonly known.
All bullocks over the age of 48 months are meant to be [...]
In today’s hyper-scientific and overprotective society, it is easy to forget that there are still unknown and potentially harmful ingredients that can make their way into our food. For this reason, we have the Novel Food and Novel Food Ingredients Regulations 1997 to protect us from food and ingredients that the FSA hasn’t deemed safe [...]
Since the start of 2006, there have been new food hygiene laws in place that affect all food-related businesses, including primary producers. It is very important that anybody that has any dealing with food investigate whether they need to register their premise with the local authorities.
If your company has anything to do with food, the [...]
Behold; an 8-minute video produced by the Food Standards Agency to demonstrate the importance of the 4 Cs of Food Hygiene that were discussed in the last post during Food Safety Week 2o09. In case you have forgotten, the 4 Cs are:
Cooking
Cleaning
Chilling
Cross-Contamination
So technically it is the 5 Cs, but 4 sounds like less to remember [...]
After concerns that it might contain tiny pieces of plastic, Heinz is set to recall all its mum’s own spaghetti bolognese baby food tomorrow because of the choking hazard. Recalling is different to withdrawing; where the latter is simply taking the product off the shelves, the former involves the company genuinely requesting that everybody who [...]