In this issue: CFA & Policy: STEC highlight deficiencies in test methods EU Listeria regulation change confirmed Brexit update Net Zero ambition statement Talking food Millions more meals redistributed A fond farewell Chilled Education; “Wow – what a day!” New industry career paths Advocating food teaching and careers with the Food Teacher Centre and IGD Chatting careers with cadets Clocking up the hours A repeat of FDF success? CFA News 62 September 2024  

CFA continues to respond to the STEC fatal outbreak between April and June, which took the lives of two people, caused illness in nearly 300 and is estimated to have cost the industry in excess of £10m. The outbreak has prompted CFA’s call for a review of STEC test methods, the interpretation of unconfirmed results and the application and legal relevance of HPA RTE criteria for generic (non-pathogenic) E. coli. Under the advice of FSA in mid-June certain short shelf life foods (e.g. sandwiches and wraps) were recalled with media reporting the FSA’s hypothesis of salad leaves being the source. […]

It’s now more than eight years since the UK’s referendum vote and the huge complexity, costs, inefficiencies and negative impacts on GB food supply and trade of new Brexit bureaucracy agreed by UK government (UKG) with its largest trading partner – the EU – are becoming ever clearer. Rules must be revised to ease legitimate trade with the EU, on which the UK depends for its food security. For example – getting just one type of newly-required document (Export Health Certificates, EHCs) signed off for GB-EU trade in products of animal origin since December 2020 has more than £200m to […]