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		<title>No confirmed cause of Clostridium botulinum outbreak</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food Quality News reports that a spokesperson from the Food Standards Agency has said that no confirmed cause of the family outbreak from the Lloyd Grossman Korma sauce, produced by Premier Foods, has yet been found. Investigations are ongoing but it seems to us that this one may slip away. The fact that only one jar was implicated is something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New EU Food Labelling Regulations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK Food Standards Agency reports that the new Food Information Regulation has been published by the EU. This has been designed to make labelling clearer to the consumer. Most of the requirements will be mandatory from 2014 with the nutrition labelling part becoming mandatory from 2016. This may seem a long way off but those who manufacture long shelf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Food Hygiene Ratings Scheme</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Hygiene]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Food Standards Agency has released updates on how our local authorities are progressing with the launch of the Food Hygiene Ratings Scheme. It looks like good progress so far with 180 local authorities publishing over 140,000 ratings from 0 (urgent improvement required) to 5 (very good standards of food hygiene). Now it just needs rolling out properly to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banoffee tart box. New York Cheesecake inside.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess it&#8217;s no wonder that extremely stringent packaging check procedures are demanded by Issue 6 of the BRC Global Food Standard when you read this article from the Food Standards Agency. This is a fairly basic and avoidable error. Let&#8217;s hope that the Issue 6 BRC Standard requirement to look at root cause when things like this happen will help. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advice to reduce risk from botulism</title>
		<link>http://www.mqmconsulting.co.uk/food-safety-news/advice-to-reduce-risk-from-botulism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Safety News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food poisoning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Food Standards Agency has released a communication concerning some common sense controls to avoid risk. The main points are targeted towards the consumer who does not need, of course, to follow mandatory food safety procedures and hence can be a source of their own risk.]]></description>
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		<title>British Sandwich Association adopts Food Hygiene Rating Scheme</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Hygiene]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a positive move forward, the British Sandwich Association, the trade association which runs a food safety certification scheme for sandwich and sandwich mix manufacturers, has adopted a minimum 3 out of 5 score as a mandatory requirement for its retail members. The scheme awards score of 0 to 5 where 5 is excellent and 0 indicates urgent attention to food safety controls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another unapproved premises.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Food Standards Agency releases a recall notice concerning some ready-to-eat foods produced in unapproved premises, which you can read in full here. What does this mean? Well it means that some food products have been made in food premises which are not known to the local authority. This in turn means that critical food safety control systems, such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FSA recall &#8211; product packaged in unapproved premises</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Safety News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This product recall has highlighted the importance of the mandatory requirement to seek premises approval before any food handling commences. The current EU Food hygiene regulations (853/2004) are quite clear on this. A submission for approval needs to be sent to the local authority &#8211; this will contain details such as: Details of products to be handled Management and site contact details [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best before, Use By and Display Until dates</title>
		<link>http://www.mqmconsulting.co.uk/announcements/best-before-use-by-and-display-until-dates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would not be surprised if the average consumer was left even more confused by the media, including BBC Breakfast this morning. Even the Freesat &#8220;text&#8221; service seemed to indicate that &#8220;the Food Standards Agency is getting rid of sell by dates&#8221;! Sell by dates have not existed for many years now of course. Display Until dates still do &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stomach Upsets</title>
		<link>http://www.mqmconsulting.co.uk/food-safety-visits/stomach-upsets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Hygiene]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The results of some very interesting research has just been released by the Food Standards Agency. The study looked at the impact of all cases of Infectious Intestinal Disease (IID), both linked to and not linked to food. It found that there are 17 million cases of IID (approximately 1/4 of the population) and that as a result there are [...]]]></description>
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