FSA Incidents Report 2009 MQM’s Midlands based consultant Paul Newman has looked into the Food Standards Agency ‘annual report of 2009’ – some interesting facts have emerged! In 2009 the agency issued 91 alerts, of which 49 were allergen alerts. In total the agency investigated over 1200 incidents including food contact packaging, pesticides and unauthorised [...]
A report in “The Week” magazine of 30/1/2010 provided some interesting numbers. It quoted that around 20% of adults in the UK believe they are intolerant of, or allergic to, some form of food with wheat being the most commonly cited. In the same article it was pointed out that researchers at Portsmouth University discovered [...]