Food Law News - UK - 2015
FSA News, 4 June 2015
INCIDENTS - FSA Annual Report of Incidents published
A copy of the report is available on this site. See: Annual Report of Incidents 2014
The Food Standards Agency has today published its latest Annual Report of Food Incidents. It shows that in 2014, we were notified of, investigated and managed 1,645 food, feed and environmental contamination incidents in the UK. The overall number of incidents was similar to those seen in recent years. However, in most categories, the numbers of incidents differ considerably from year to year.
The four largest contributors to the total number of recorded incidents in 2014 were:
- microbiological contamination (24%)
- veterinary medicines (13%)
- environmental contamination (12%)
- natural chemical contamination (9%)
The FSA has provided some supporting documents which are available on this site:
- Annual Report of Incidents 2014: background quality report: How the report is produced and information on quality of statistics
- FSA incidents database: statement of administrative sources: About the data used to produce the statistics
- Consultation: proposed changes to Annual Report of Incidents: Let us know if we can make next year's report more useful