Food Safety Regs to Change in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published plans to update food regulations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The plans are outlined in a document entitled, “Regulating Our Future: Why food regulation needs to change and how we are going to do it”. The plan includes a number of proposals that are aimed at transforming the way food businesses are regulated in parts of Europe.
According to Heather Hancock, chairman of the FSA, “The case for changing the food regulation system is strong. We need to reform the way we regulate to keep up the pace of change in the global food economy: in what we eat, where we consume it, how it reaches us. We need a modern, flexible and responsive regulatory system. It is important that we act now, rather than wait for the system to falter, risking damaging consequences for public health and for trust in food. These reform plans are given extra momentum as the UK leaves the EU, a step that will adjust patterns of food production, trade and consumption.