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Food safety testing to be beefed-up
The report on “food authenticity” will lay out plans to protect the food chain by stepping up national co-ordination of testing and monitoring by local authorities, “setting priorities for sampling and analysis … targeting enforcement action, and opportunities for the FSA to play a stronger role in guiding activity”.
The paper reveals that the number of food samples taken by councils has fallen in recent years, dipping by 14.6 per cent in the year to 2012 alone. And it warns the effectiveness of the testing programme could be threatened by government cuts.
