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... meat from the offspring of a cloned cow, raised and slaughtered in the uk has been exported to belgium, the uk’s food standards agency has confirmed ... the uk’s fsa said yesterday that meat from one of three offspring of cloned cows (two 2nd generation and one 3rd generation) has been exported to belgium ... the fsa subsequently issued a rapid alert using the eu food safety system to notify belgian authorities on 9 august ... existing novel foods regulation is unclear, and the fsa has said novel foods approval should have been sought by the farmers that raised and sold the 2nd and 3rd generation animals for meat
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... the uk’s food standard agency this morning (10 march) agreed to the implementation of a single approach to front-of-pack (fop) nutrition labelling ... to avoid consumer confusion, colours other than traffic lights should not be used, the fsa said ... “the board was clear that it wanted a single approach to front of pack labelling that works,” said jeff rooker, fsa board chair ... “the fsa was set up to look out for the interests of consumers, but by backing down on labelling, it seems to have lost sight of this ... ” a spokesperson for the consumer group added: “previously the fsa had endorsed that companies use gda, traffic light labelling and ‘high, medium and low’ on their front of pack labelling ... the fsa said it will advise ministers of its recommendations before undertaking a four to six week consultation on the technical guidance that will be needed to implement the board’s recommendations
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... the uk’s fsa is planning an open event to gauge views and present its panel’s work
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... indeed, the uk’s food standards agency has been encouraging use of traffic light colours on foods that have high, medium, and low levels of certain nutrients ... the uk’s fsa were contacted for comment, but were not available prior to publication ... insufficient data? traffic lights work! commenting on the study’s findings, a spokesperson for the fsa told foodnavigator: “this study relates to information supplied by one supermarket, shortly after they started applying traffic lights to a limited number of products and does not provide sufficient data to conclude whether or not traffic light labelling helps people to make healthy choices
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... com that while the concept of sodium chloride replacement with the lactate mixture is not new, the recent salt reduction initiatives launched, most notably by the uk’s fsa, has made this more topical ... the pressure has been mounting on food manufacturers to reduce the salt content of their foods and the uk's food standards agency's (fsa) recommendation of six grams of salt per day for the general population is understood to be more a realistic target for the next five years than the ideal healthy limit
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... the idea of product category specific targets was seen as a good guide, but while the uk’s fsa is seen as a good starting point, some categories may need “splitting further” to account for variability
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... for instance, the food standards agency of ireland (fsai) was set up in 1998/9, and the uk’s fsa in 2000
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