APA News
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A Feast of Fraudulent Food
16 February 2015
On 4 February, a director of a takeaway in Morley near Leeds, pleaded guilty at Leeds Magistrates court to ten charges made under the Food Safety Act and other food laws. He was fined £100 and ordered to pay £500 costs, the company was fined £1000 and ordered to pay £2000 costs. Having looked at the menu on line an officer from the West Yorkshire Trading Standards Service placed an order for a lamb curry, a lamb donner kebab, a margherita pizza, a ham pizza and a chicken tikka masala. Later that day, the meals were collected and submitted as formal samples to the West Yorkshire Public Analysts based less than two miles away.
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UK’s Public Analysts at forefront of drive to detect food adulterated with almond and peanut
16 February 2015
The UK’s Public Analyst laboratories are at the forefront of a drive to detect food products that may have been adulterated with almond or peanut as a substitute for more expensive nuts or seeds.
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Food Standards Agency Publish Results of Takeaway Survey
10 February 2015
Prompted by the survey by Which? published in April 2014 which showed that of the 60 lamb takeaways (lamb curry and lamb kebab) sampled in Birmingham and London, 24 contained meat of species other than lamb, the Food Standards Agency announced that it would fund an additional programme of priority local authority testing of lamb dishes from takeaway restaurants across the UK.
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PASS is delighted to announce the appointment of Joanne Hubbard as a Public Analyst
09 January 2015
Joanne Hubbard joined Public Analyst Scientific Services on 5th January, strengthening the team of public analysts to eight. Joanne is an experienced public analyst, having previously worked for Eurofins, and more recently working in quality assurance and consultancy roles in the food and pharmaceutical industries.
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Staffordshire APA Lab featured on BBC's "Fake Britain"
08 December 2014
Staffordshire lab staff along with a member of the council's Animal Health team were featured on a recent edition of edition of Fake Britain (Monday 8th December).
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Elliott calls for food analysts to unite to fight fraud
20 November 2014
Discussions are underway to boost the power of local authority public analysts in a bid to fight food fraud, according to professor Chris Elliott, author of the prominent review into ‘horsegate’.
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