The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published the results of its targeted surveillance sampling of retail food products for 2022, and found that 81 percent of foods tested were compliant with regulatory requirements. As this was a targeted sampling program, results are not representative of UK food safety as a whole.
FSA conducts targeted surveillance sampling of retail food products to help identify emerging food safety risks. For the survey, a total of 1,215 food samples from 28 different food commodity types were collected and tested, including frequently consumed foods and food types that would inform FSA’s knowledge of risk.