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Festive Food Safety is Child’s Play

Primary pupils at Midmar School in Sauchen show how food safety is easy, and that not following good food hygiene practices when it comes to your Christmas dinner could put you and your family at risk of food poisoning over the festive season.

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Food Standards Scotland Board meeting to be held on 15th November

The next Board meeting will be held at our Food Standards Scotland offices in Aberdeen: Pilgrim House, Old Ford Road, Aberdeen, AB11 5RL on 15th November 2017.

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Food Standards Scotland survey shows increasing public concern over diet in Scotland

Food Standards Scotland has today (31 October 2017 published the latest results from the biannual ‘Food in Scotland’ Consumer Tracking Survey, showing the number of people concerned about having a healthy diet is increasing.

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Quarterly Incidents Report

Food Standards Scotland has today (Tuesday 24 October) published a summary of food product recalls or withdrawals between July – September 2017.

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Survey shows that campylobacter levels in UK-produced chicken continue to decrease

Final results from the third year of Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) survey of campylobacter contamination on fresh chickens at retail have today (18 October 2017) been published.

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