The Food Standards Agency has published 10 short videos to help caterers produce food safely. Each video is about a minute long and covers specific food hygiene practices. These training resources are designed to illustrate messages within the ‘Safer food, better business’ packs and they follow the same innovative and…
Keeping track of what we eat and choosing healthier foods could be made easier thanks to a consultation launched today on front-of-pack (FoP) nutrition labelling by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in both Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Did you know that a flood, fire, national disaster, or the loss of power from high winds, snow, or ice could jeopardize the safety of your food? Knowing how to determine if food is safe and how to keep food safe will help minimize the potential loss of food and…
Too much milk fat in your diet can lead to colitis. That is the findings of a paper published ahead of print on the Nature website by a group from the Gastroenterology Section of the Department of Medicine, University of Chicago.
After listening to BBC documentary podcasts for 2 years I finally decided to check their website to see what other pearls of wisdom they offer and I came across the Food Program from Radio 4. I found a back catalogue of extremely interesting and thought provoking episodes that I will…
Vitamin E can help prevent cancer, but are you taking the right one? That’s the worrying message published by researchers from the State University of New Jersey and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.
This year strawberry growers in the UK are expecting yields of 56,000 tonnes, up 10% from last year. This is due to the mild and warm spring weather, also apparently resulting in sweeter and juicer fruit.
The EFSA just published a video in the “Understanding Science” video series to teach you in the use of pesticides in food production. It is worth watching and can be found here.
The EFSA just published a video in the „Understanding Science“ video series to teach you in chemical contaminants in food. It is worth watching and can be found here.
Today, HEIDI – an internet based wiki that presents reliable and comparable data about health in the EU – has been launched by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health & Consumers. Although HEIDI has been set up by the Commission, the content is written by European health experts – who…


