It works with local authorities to enforce food safety regulations and its. The food standards agency fsa is responsible for food safety and food hygiene in england wales and northern ireland. Just 10 days ago the petition had been signed by 50 000 people but at the time of publication the figure had rocketed to more than 906 000.
A petition urging uk politicians to ensure any food imports meet british standards has garnered the support of almost one million people. But in the us where these controls are not built into the system chlorinating chicken is a common practice and food poisoning runs rampant. Uk farmers don t need to chlorinate chicken because we have food safety controls built in at each stage of the production chain ensuring higher standards of food safety and animal welfare.
The nfu has heralded the commission as a positive step it is exactly what it wanted. Food standards would disempower consumers who do not have the economic freedom to choose where their meat comes from who cannot buy high welfare meat and pretend it s a genuine solution to food inequality. A food trade deal that compromises u k.
Sign our food standards petition and ask the uk government to ensure all food imports are produced to the same high standards as british farmers. The uk government has the opportunity right now to put into law rules that prevent food being imported to the uk which is produced in ways that would be illegal here. The food standards agency is a non ministerial government department of the government of the united kingdom it is responsible for protecting public health in relation to food in england wales and northern ireland it is led by a board appointed to act in the public interest its headquarters are in london with offices in york birmingham wales and northern ireland.
Minette batters the president of the uk s national farmers union has described johnson s refusal to commit in law to upholding current food standards as pretty terrifying the uk currently. James bailey who joined waitrose from sainsbury. The new boss of waitrose has joined farmers and food campaigners in urging the government to protect food standards in post brexit trade deals.
The nfu is calling for a trade food and farming standards commission to review policy and develop solutions to promote free trade while holding all food imports to the uk s high food standards. Food standards agency makes sure food is safe and what it says it is.
