The Food Standards Agency, the UK’s food watchdog, is to reportedly set to be abolished.
Reports in the UK this weekend have claimed the country’s coalition government plans to disband the FSA and move its functions to the Department of Health and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, or Defra.
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The future of the FSA has been in question since the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government was formed in May. The coalition is looking to cut public spending in a bid to reduce the UK’s budget deficit, which stands at GBP165bn.
The FSA was formed in 2000 in a bid to boost public confidence in food safety but there has been concerns throughout the food industry that the agency’s remit became too broad as it incorporated advice on diet and nutrition.
