FSA Annual Report of Incidents published

Saturday 06 Jun 2015 @ 07:10
Food Standards Agency

The Food Standards Agency has recently published its latest Annual Report of Food Incidents. It shows that in 2014, we were notified of, investigated and managed 1,645 food, feed and environmental contamination incidents in the UK. The overall number of incidents was similar to those seen in recent years. However, in most categories, the numbers of incidents differ considerably from year to year.

The four largest contributors to the total number of recorded incidents in 2014 were:

microbiological contamination (24%)
veterinary medicines (13%)
environmental contamination (12%)
natural chemical contamination (9%)

The full report can be found via the link below.

Read the report and supporting documents

Annual Report of Incidents 2014(1.70 MB)

Read the full report

Annual Report of Incidents 2014: background quality report (66.51 KB)

How the report is produced and information on quality of statistics

FSA incidents database: statement of administrative sources (104.65 KB)

About the data used to produce the statistics

Consultation: proposed changes to Annual Report of Incidents (40.16 KB)

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Annual Report of Incidents

The Annual Report of Incidents shows how many food incidents the FSA handled in a given year, and what action was taken to protect consumers.

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