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  • National Audit Office questions whether there will be sufficient analytical capacity to respond to future incidents.


    The decline also reduces local authorities’ ability to establish a local mutual relationship with a scientific adviser and therefore reduces capacity to develop a programme of testing in line with local priorities. The report was covered in the Guardian. The NAO’s executive director, Richard Lloyd, has been quoted as saying: “The scandal exposed a web of confusion, which is why we have been calling for the government to move responsibilities for labelling and standards back to the FSA.”