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Horse meat scare offers food for thought
02 February 2013
Past President Dr Duncan Campbell is quoted in an article in the Royal Society of Chemistry's on-line edition of Chemistry World as saying ‘I think that nationally local authorities now spend less than £5 million each year on analysis carried out by public analysts for food law enforcement. For county councils [in England], the number of food samples that are taken for analysis by public analysts has fallen by 47% in the three years to March 2012.’;
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No Horse in Haggis
25 January 2013
Past President of the Association, Dr Duncan Campbell has been widely quoted in the press during the recent “Horse Meat in Burgers Scandal”. Whilst there are serious points to be made, not least about the diminishing resources available for food inspection and analysis there has also been much humour generated.
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Food Inspectors BBC1
23 January 2013
A recent edition of BBC1 The Food Inspectors featured the APA's Training Officer Michael Walker talking about why analyses for aflatoxins are carried out. The programme was on BBC1 on Tuesday 23rd January) and will be available on iPlayer.
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BBC Radio 4 Food Programme - Horsemeat and the Irish burger scandal
18 January 2013
In a special edition of The Food Programme to be broadcast on Sunday 20th January at 12:30 pm and Monday21st January at 3:30 pm, Sheila Dillon talks to APA Past President Dr Duncan Campbell, former regulators and experts on food processing to find out how it could have happened.
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Cuts in food safety checks mean that horsemeat scandal could happen again
18 January 2013
Duncan Campbell, Past President of the APA, was quoted in the Independent on Friday 18th January in an article about the reduction in the number of public analysts and laboratories in the last ten years.
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President Talks About Horse Meat in Burgers on BBC Breakfast
18 January 2013
Liz Moran, President of the APA, was interviewed on Thursday 17th January on the BBC1 Breakfast News about the breaking horse meat scandal. She highlighted the lack of enforcement and testing in this area in the UK in recent years and the budget cuts leading to a lack of resources to check for potential problems in the food chain.
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