Food Standards Agency to retain food safety focus
The Government has announced that the Food Standards Agency (FSA) will retain its responsibility for food safety but will lose its remit to regulate nutrition and labelling in England.
The announcement comes after speculation that the FSA would be scrapped altogether. In England, the FSA will now focus on food safety, while responsibility for nutrition policy, such as calorie labelling on menus and salt levels, will move to the Department of Health (DoH). The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will also share some of the FSA's responsibilities for food composition policies and non-safety related food labelling. The FSA will retain responsibility for nutrition policy and food labelling in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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