Proposed consultations

Tuesday 1 May 2012

The Agency carries out numerous formal consultations. The following list of proposed consultations has been compiled to help stakeholders by providing advance notification of consultations the FSA expects to publish on its website in the near future.

The proposed list is subject to change, however, and some proposed consultations may even be withdrawn completely. The fact that a proposed consultation appears on the list should not therefore be taken as an indication that the consultation will actually proceed.

You can also view currently open consultations .

Consultations title
Description (purpose of your consultation/what is being proposed)
Policy Contact & Branch
Anticipated Launch Date
Consultation on proposals for amendments to traceability requirements
Regulation (EC) No 931/2011 clarifies the requirements contained in Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 relating to traceability.
Liz Stretton, Hygiene and Microbiology
May 2012
Consultation on labelling requirements for frozen food
SANCO 1489/2007 (this has been agreed but not yet been published in the OJ) will require FBOs to keep more detailed information regarding the dates of production and freezing of food of animal origin.
Liz Stretton, Hygiene and Microbiology
May 2012
Consultation on the Commission's proposal to restrict the use of aluminium -containing food additives.
The purpose of the consultation is to seek comments from stakeholders on the Impact Assessment on the likely affect of the Commission's proposal to restrict the use of aluminium-containing food additives, particularly Sodium Aluminium
Nasreen Shah, Chemical Safety Division
May 2012
Front of Pack nutrition labelling
A UK-wide consultation setting out the ambitions of Governments across the UK to bring more consistency to the use of FoP labelling by working with partners to identify a joint way forward and seeks views on how this may be achieved.
Sam McKeown Nutrition Scotland
May 2012
Commission Regulation (EU) No. XXX/XXXXamending Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 as regards maximum levels for nitrates in foodstuffs
The purpose of the consultation is to seek comments from stakeholders on the Impact Assessment on the likely affect of the (yet to be published) Commission Regulation, as regards maximum levels of nitrates in foodstuffs
Nasreen Shah, Chemical Safety Division
May 2012
Approval of feed business operators blending and processing fats and oils
To set the level of the fee payable by feed business operators when seeking approval from the competent authority of their proposed activity, and associated administrative provisions
Tim Franck, AFAB, extension 8471
June/July 2012 (provisional)

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