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Food Standards Agency
Food Standards Agency - Recent press releases
Check the latest press releases issued by the Agency, or search the press releases below. Press releases from 2000 to 2005 have been archived on the National Archives website.

FSA launches national food hygiene rating scheme
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is today launching the roll-out of a national food hygiene rating scheme that will help people choose the safest places to eat out or do their food shopping.
Appointment of a new member and reappointment of three existing members for ACAF
Jeff Rooker, Chair of the Food Standards Agency, today announced on behalf of the Agency, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the devolved administrations the appointment of Professor Stephen Forsythe and the re-appointment of Dr Dozie Azubike, Professor Nigel Halford and Mr Richard Scales as members of the Advisory Committee on Animal Feedingstuffs.
Agency reminds parents of advice on feeding honey to babies
The Food Standards Agency is reminding parents not to feed honey to babies who are under a year old. This follows a confirmed case of the rare but serious illness, infant botulism.
A new Operations Group for the Food Standards Agency
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) announced in July 2009 its intention to form a new Operations Group in 2010. This will take effect from 1 April 2010 when the Meat Hygiene Service (MHS) and FSA merge.
Agency makes recommendations on reducing saturated fat and added sugar in key...
The Agency is today making its recommendations to food manufacturers on reductions in saturated fat and added sugar, as well as greater availability of smaller single-portion sizes in a number of key foods ? biscuits, cakes, buns, chocolate confectionery and soft drinks.
Food Standards Agency response to Consumer Focus Wales report
The Food Standards Agency welcomes the publication of the Consumer Focus Wales report: 'Protecting consumers from E.coli O157'.
National Diet and Nutrition Survey year 1
Results from the first year of the new National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) suggest that the UK population is eating less saturated fat, less trans fat and less added sugar than it was 10 years ago.
FSA takes small steps to encourage young people to eat well, get active and f...
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) today officially launched SmallSteps4Life ? an innovative approach to motivating young people to take simple steps towards improving their health and well-being, both inside and outside the classroom.
Consumers set for another milk revolution?
A new survey published today by the Agency, to coincide with the launch of phase 2 of the saturated fat campaign, found that people who regularly use semi-skimmed milk would be happy to switch to drinking an even lower fat milk.
Don't let a turkey spoil your Christmas
The Food Standards Agency is hoping to reduce the number of food safety clangers that are served up this Christmas, with its Christmas food safety advertising campaign.

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Alergy Allerts from the FSA

Food Standards Agency - Recent allergy alerts
Sometimes foods have to be withdrawn or recalled if there is a risk to consumers because the allergy labelling is missing or incorrect or if there is any other food allergy risk.

Asda withdraws one date code of Asda Layered Prawn Salad due to a packaging e...
Allergen: Shellfish (prawns)
Doves Farm Foods Limited withdraws one batch of Gluten Free Buckwheat Flour d...
Allergen: Gluten
UK Snacks Ltd recall certain batch code of Giant 'Just Fruit' mixed dried fru...
Allergen: Sulphur Dioxide
Waitrose withdraws their own Essential Range of Salmon and Dill Fishcakes due...
Allergen: Mustard
Asda recalls one date code of Asda Frozen Chicken Biryani Steamer due to a pa...
Allergen: Shellfish (prawns)
Asda recalls certain date codes of Asda Hot & Spicy King Prawns with Garlic M...
Allergen: Milk
Maysum withdraws certain batch codes of Chicken and Vegetable Samosas due to ...
Allergen: Sulphites
Waitrose recalls one batch of its own-brand Belgian Plain Chocolate due to th...
Allergens: Nuts (Hazelnuts)
Enotria withdraws all batch codes of Capriola Pinot Grigio delle Venezie 2010...
Allergens: Sulphites
Guy Anderson Wines Ltd withdraws all batched of Church Mouse Falanghina due t...
Allergens: Sulphites

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News from Google

Food Standards location:uk - Google News
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Northampton Borough Council Steps up Food Safety Checks - AboutMyArea

AboutMyArea

Northampton Borough Council Steps up Food Safety Checks
AboutMyArea
Food safety officers from Northampton Borough Council's public protection division have been carrying out extra checks on butchers and caterers around the town in the wake of updated guidance issued by the Food Standards Agency in November last year.

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School meals are to be outsourced - Oxford Mail

School meals are to be outsourced
Oxford Mail
By Liam Sloan » OXFORDSHIRE'S healthy school dinners service looks set to be handed over to private contractors, after councillors were promised that standards would not drop. Cabinet members have been recommended to include the primary school meals ...

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Only 7% of packed lunches comply with food standards - Ed Exec

Ed Exec

Only 7% of packed lunches comply with food standards
Ed Exec
Only seven per cent of packed lunches comply with food-based standards for school lunches, according to a Lunch Box Amnesty study of students in secondary schools. In total, 120 year 7 and 8 students from four secondary schools participated in the ...


Mussel firm fined for minor breach of food regulations - Shetland Times Online

Mussel firm fined for minor breach of food regulations
Shetland Times Online
A well-known mussel company which failed to comply properly with food regulations has been fined £1750. Blueshell Mussels admitted some of its registration documents were either not properly filled in or were missing altogether when environmental ...

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Coventry food outlets get notice of food hygiene standards changes - Coventry...

Coventry food outlets get notice of food hygiene standards changes
Coventry Telegraph
by Cara Simpson, Coventry Telegraph MORE than 2000 letters have been issued to schools, restaurants, takeaways, pubs, cafes and hotels across Coventry about new hygiene standards that come into force later this year. The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme will ...

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Legal warning over food-poison claims - Telegraph.co.uk

Telegraph.co.uk

Legal warning over food-poison claims
Telegraph.co.uk
?There have been many reports that customers have blackmailed hoteliers by threatening to post false food-poisoning claims on TripAdvisor. It is scandalous,? he said. The news follows the Advertising Standards Authority's (ASA) ruling that TripAdvisor ...
Advertising Standards Agency upholds TripAdvisor complaintCaterer and Hotelkeeper
TripAdvisor told to stop claiming reviews are 'trusted and honest'Daily Mail
What does the TripAdvisor furore teach us about critics?The Guardian (blog)

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One person dies after salmonella outbreak linked to watermelons - Telegraph.c...

Telegraph.co.uk

One person dies after salmonella outbreak linked to watermelons
Telegraph.co.uk
According to the Food Standards Agency (FSA), the first outbreak was detected in early December last year. The most recently reported illness was at the end of that month. The FSA said that it is ?too soon? to say for certain what the likely cause of ...
Watermelons linked to deadly salmonella outbreak that has killed one and left ...Daily Mail
Watermelon linked to salmonella outbreakNetdoctor
Watermelons linked to salmonella outbreakAOL Lifestyle UK
Huffington Post UK
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Bradford Council switches to national food hygiene scheme - Bradford Telegrap...

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Bradford Council switches to national food hygiene scheme
Bradford Telegraph and Argus
Bradford Council is to switch to a national scheme which gives ratings to premises selling food, building on the success of the Score on the Doors website. The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme has been developed by the Food Standards Agency in partnership ...
Eateries' hygiene ratings revealedJarrow & Hebburn Gazette

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Court sees FSA 'refund' deal - meatinfo.co.uk

Court sees FSA 'refund' deal
meatinfo.co.uk
Processors are claiming a victory over the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the High Court, which they claim could see the agency refund or reduce charges to industry to the tune of £1m. The FSA was challenged in the courts by 12 members of the ...


UBS's silly menu leaves a bad taste in the mouth - Financial Times

UBS's silly menu leaves a bad taste in the mouth
Financial Times
Even this standard food guff is misplaced. I fail to see why a business that flies its bankers all round the world at the drop of a hat should draw the line at importing the odd Kenyan green bean in the dead of winter. Organic, as all sensible people ...



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Recomended Cooking Times for Meat

 

Cooking times for Poultry

Chicken - 45 mins per kilo+20 mins @ Gas 5/180C/350F
Turkey - 45 mins per kilo+20 mins @ Gas 5/180C/350F
Goose - 45 mins per kilo+20 mins @ Gas 5/180C/350F
Pheasant -45 mins per kilo+20 mins@ Gas 5/180C/350F
Duck - 45 mins per kilo + 20 mins @ Gas 5/180C/350F

Cooking time for Beef

Beef-Rare-32mins per kilo (15 mins/lb) + 20 mins
Beef-Med.-55mins per kilo(25 mins/lb)+20 mins
Beef-Well Done-66mins perkilo(30 min/lb)+30 min
All above are cooked at Gas 4/5, 180C, 350F

Cooking time for Pork

Pork-Medium-66 mins/kilo (30 mins/lb) + 30 mins
Pork-Well done-77mins/kilo (35 mins/lb) +35 mins
Cooked at Gas 4/5, 180c, 350F

Cooking time for Lamb

Lamb-Medium-55min/ kilo (25 mins/lb)+25 mins
Lamb-Well Done-66 min/kilo(30 mins/lb)+30 min
Cooked at Gas 4/5, 180C, 350F

Cooking time for Mutton

Braised Mutton-45min/kilo (20 mins/lb)

To Braise, the mutton is cooked in 1pt stock/kilo on a bed of vegetables, halfway through the cooking time the joint is turned over. This has the effect of both poaching and roasting each half of the joint. The stock will reduce to make a delicious gravy.


Mutton - 99 mins per kilo (45 mins/lb)
Cooked at Gas 4/5, 180C, 350F

Cooking time for Venison

Venison - Haunch - 45 mins per kilo (20 mins/lb)
Venison - Saddle - 35 mins per kilo (15 mins /lb)
Venison - Rack - 35 mins per kilo (15 mins/lb)
Cooked at Gas 8, 230C, 450F
Often marinaded, baste frequently.


50 gms =1.8 oz

100 gms =3.2 oz

1 kg.=2.2 lb


Centigrade Farenheit Gas Mark
140°C = 275°F = 1 = Very Cool
150°C = 300°F =2 = Cool
160°C = 325°F = 3 = Warm
180°C = 350°F =4 = Moderate
190°C = 375°F = 5 = Fairly Hot
200°C = 400°F = 6 = Fairly Hot
220°C = 425°F = 7 = Hot
230°C = 450°F = 8 = Very Hot
240°C = 475°F = 9 = Very Hot

Ounces to Grams

1oz = 28.35gm
2oz = 56.70gm
3oz = 85.05gm
4oz =113.40gm
5oz = 141.75gm
6oz = 170.10gm
7oz = 198.45gm
8oz = 226.80gm
9oz = 255.15gm
10oz = 283.50gm
11oz = 311.84gm
12oz = 340.19gm
13oz = 368.54gm
14oz = 396.89gm
15oz = 425.24gm
16oz = 453.59gm
17oz = 481.94gm
18oz = 510.29gm
19oz = 538.64gm
20oz = 566.99gm
21oz = 595.34gm
22oz = 623.69gm
23oz = 652.04gm
24oz = 680.39gm
25oz = 708.74gm
26oz = 737.09gm
27oz = 765.44gm
28oz = 793.79gm
29oz = 822.14gm
30oz = 850.49gm
31oz = 878.83gm
32oz = 907.18gm
33oz = 935.53gm
34oz = 963.88gm
35oz = 992.23gm
36oz = 1020.58gm
37oz = 1048.93gm
38oz = 1077.28gm
39oz = 1105.63gm
40oz = 1133.98gm
41oz = 1162.33gm
42oz = 1190.68gm
43oz = 1219.03gm
44oz = 1247.38gm
45oz = 1275.73gm
46oz = 1304.08gm
47oz = 1332.43gm
48oz = 1360.78gm
49oz = 1389.13gm
50oz = 1417.47gm
51oz = 1445.82gm
52oz = 1474.17gm
53oz = 1502.52gm
54oz = 1530.87gm
55oz = 1559.22gm
56oz = 1587.57gm
57oz = 1615.92gm
58oz = 1644.27gm
59oz = 1672.62gm
60oz = 1700.97gm

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