Food: Safety

(asked on 9th February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the Food Standards Agency concerning its plans to substitute regular food safety inspections with greater self-regulation by business.


Answered by
Lord O'Shaughnessy Portrait
Lord O'Shaughnessy
This question was answered on 23rd February 2017

The Government continues to engage with the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the development of its strategic regulatory transformation programme, Regulating our Future, which aims to design a tailored and proportionate system of regulation for food and feed in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by 2020 that reflects relative risk, reinforces accountability and delivers more for public health.

The FSA’s cross-Government engagement includes working with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, to ensure the future assurance model creates the right regulatory environment for business.

The FSA will set the system standards for the new assurance framework to ensure the very highest levels of consumer protection. Robust mechanisms will be in place to verify the integrity of data coming from regulated private assurance.

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