FSA’s Annual Report of Food Incidents

The Food Standards Agency has published its latest Annual Report of Food Incidents. The report highlights the wide range of incidents managed by the Food Standards Agency during 2012. Last year, a total of 1,604 food and environmental contamination incidents in the UK were reported to and investigated by the FSA. This figure was 110 down on 2011 but higher than in many previous years. The three largest contributors to these incidents were microbiological contamination (20%), environmental contamination (15%) and natural chemical contamination (13%).