Summary
Food Standards Scotland’s Strategy to 2026 sets out a vision for a safe, healthy and sustainable food environment that benefits and protects the health and well-being of everyone in Scotland. Three of the priority outcomes are that Food is Safe and Authentic, responsible food businesses are able to thrive and FSS is trusted and influential.
Incident prevention plays an important part in this by identifying areas for improvement through analysis of a variety of sources that then enables preventative measures to be established and implemented to help ensure continuous improvement with a view to enable food businesses to thrive.
FSS's long-term goal is to have a process that will enable effective and efficient analysis of information to help inform prevention initiatives with an emphasis on helping food businesses reduce the number of incidents in targeted areas through education and information sharing. This work will link closely to FSS's root cause analysis strategy.
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Food crime and incidents
SFCIU is the dedicated incidents, investigations and intelligence gathering arm of Food Standard Scotland.