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FSA publishes list of incidents for October to December 2015

The FSA has today published a summary of food incidents handled between October and December 2015. This list, which we have compiled for the first time, summarises alerts issued by the FSA to recall or withdraw products. It also includes information about where we supported foodborne outbreak investigations.

Over the three month period, we issued 38 food notices, of which 26 were allergy alerts, with the top three undeclared allergens being cereals, milk and mustard. The FSA also supported three foodborne outbreak investigations.

The information published today describes the overall details of the incident, the level of risk to consumers and what action we, industry and/or local authorities took.

The FSA has collated this data to make it easier for consumers to access incident information.

Will Creswell, Head of Consumer Protection, said: 'We hope this will prove to be a useful tool for people who want to know more about the incidents we handle. It’s a retrospective look, so these aren’t live incidents, but the list will give all the important aspects of food incidents in one place. This is the first quarterly publication with the next quarter covering January to March of this year to be published in May 2016.'

Each year, a small number of incidents or investigations are put forward for a detailed review so that the FSA can make improvements and identify lessons learned.

Today the FSA is also publishing a review of an investigation we handled in September 2014 where there were reports of the presence of soya in wheat flour. This review involved meeting with relevant stakeholders which led to us drawing up a number of recommendations to assist industry and regulators and prevent similar issues recurring.

Further information

For more information about the individual incidents please click through to the links that give specific details relating to the incident at the time it occurred.

Read the report

Summary of food incidents: October - December 2015 (264.15 KB)

Read the review

Soya in wheat flour incident review (91.37 KB)

 

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