Food safety insight and analysis – Page 12
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Analysis & Features
How can companies protect themselves against recalls?
The potential damage from product recalls is being magnified by social media and cost pressures
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Comment & Opinion
Resolving our food differences with the US could be nearly as tricky as Brexit
As the chlorinated chicken row rumbles on, resolving differences with our friends across the pond could become as challenging as the Brexit negotiations
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Comment & Opinion
We forget the lessons of Horsegate at our peril
It has become the reference point for anyone concerned about the integrity of our food supply chains and the integrity of the food business more broadly, so what’s changed?
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Analysis & Features
Horsegate: five years on
It was the biggest crisis to hit grocery in decades. Five years on, we ask six leading figures to relive their memories of watching ’Horsegate’ unfold from the front line
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Comment & Opinion
2 Sisters’ transparency move could be a game-changer
As we approach the fifth anniversary of the horsegate scandal, we should welcome these first steps towards more openness in the food industry
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Comment & Opinion
Boundary pushing is great. But do veggies really want bloody burgers?
Is the use of ’obscure techno ingredients’ in vegetarian food a bite too far or a bite into the future?
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Comment & Opinion
Why traditional British sausages are safe
Research has claimed that eating processed meat can increase the risk of colorectal cancer by 18% for every 50g consumed
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Comment & Opinion
The FSA's ROF plan threatens consumer protection
There is growing concern about the FSA’s Regulating Our Future (ROF) programme
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Analysis & Features
Will breakaway labelling system get the green light?
The Evolved Nutrition Label aims to take into account portion sizes. Will more big brands sign up to front of pack?
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Comment & Opinion
A healthy buzz from posher bangers is helping dispel the carcinogen cloud
Back with a bang: sausage sales are starting to rise again, thanks to a raft of healthier NPDs
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Comment & Opinion
Time for a new approach to food assurance
Five years on from ’Horsegate’, we are dealing with yet another meat industry scandal and no one is any safer
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Analysis & Features
UK food assurance is broken. So how do we fix it?
More audits and inspections are not the answers, say experts. We need to start asking smarter questions of UK food businesses
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Comment & Opinion
Try to listen, Dr Fox. It’s a no from the public (and your fellow ministers) to chlorinated chicken
The trade secretary was back in the headlines after he told a House of Commons committee that he saw no reason why the British public shouldn’t eat chlorinated chicken from the US
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Comment & Opinion
Whether 2 Sisters can rebuild confidence could define it
“I’ve never been so gripped by a parliamentary committee meeting,” said one industry insider this week
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Comment & Opinion
Food plant audits need a rethink
I was one of the commentators on the 2 Sisters video footage obtained by the ITV/Guardian newspaper investigation
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Comment & Opinion
British food standards are at risk
The contrast between American and British food really hit me in a supermarket in Barbados
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Comment & Opinion
10 takeaways for food and farming from the Conservative and Labour party conferences
As the Tory conference draws to a close, here is the Grocer’s take on events in Brighton and Manchester
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Comment & Opinion
Prioritise British in public procurement
Prioritising British food in public procurement is an idea the BPC has been trying to get traction on
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Comment & Opinion
As 2 Sisters is fingered over food safety, is FSA still right to let retailers mark their own homework?
There will be a lot of red faces in the industry right now over the 2 Sisters Food Group exposé that broke last night.
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Analysis & Features
FSA reveals its hands-off tactics with campylobacter
Self-regulation for the mults has stirred up food safety fears