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To help avoid food poisoning, it's important to make sure the food you make is safe to eat. Get tips from our eatwell website on preparing food safely.
Safety and Hygiene
The Food Standards Agency carries out a range of work to make sure food is safe to eat, including funding research on chemical, microbiological and radiological safety, as well as food hygiene and allergy.
The details of our day-to-day work on safety and hygiene, including policy, business and our research programmes are set out below. A guide to the main general food law requirements, including the
provisions on food safety
, is in the food industries section of this website.
For consumer advice on food allergy, hygiene tips on storing and preparing food at home, plus information about food poisoning, visit our eatwell website.
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More about Safety and Hygiene
Acrylamide
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Additives
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Food contact materials
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Food supplements
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Packaging
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Para red dye
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Pesticides
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Sudan dyes
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Veterinary medicines
Cleaner farms, better flocks
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Control of MAP in milk
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Eggs
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Flooding: food safety advice
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Labelling powdered infant formula as 'non-sterile'
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Managing farm manures for food safety guidance
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Measuring foodborne illness levels
Bacteria Bite Business
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Food Safety Week 2009
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How to complain
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Hygiene Guidance
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Hygiene legislation
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Scores on the Doors
Authorisation of Discharges of Radioactive Waste to the Environment
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Irradiated food
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Radioactivity in food: your questions answered
Allergy Alerts
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Food allergen labelling
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Food intolerance and allergy research
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Guidance for food businesses on allergy and intolerance
Atypical scrapie
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BSE
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BSE and goats
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BSE and sheep
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Bird flu poses no food safety risks
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Bluetongue poses no food safety risks
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Foot and mouth disease outbreak
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Swine flu
Safety and hygiene research
The Agency's research programmes on safety and hygiene
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Safety and hygiene committees
Expert groups that advise the Agency
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Safety and hygiene publications
Leaflets and posters on safety and hygiene topics
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Safety and hygiene links
External sites with information on safety and hygiene issues
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