Food Law

We are all secretly passionate about food and enjoy the different types of things we can eat whether they are healthy or not. Food is an important part of life – nice dinners, eating out, party foods, snacks and comfort foods. Food dominates our lives in so many ways and...

Rachel Sanders is a nutrition and food safety expert and lecturer at Northampton College. She is an expert in making sure the people working in a kitchen maintain excellent health standards and there are several methods that she has taught and employed to keep people safe. One of these is...

The government seems to be clearing a route for the official acceptance of cloned meat, milk, and cheese available for sale and marketing, whether intentional or not.  A recent finding by the Food Standards Agency has stated that any banning of such products from the lineage of cloned animals is...

British Troops who happen to be Jewish will now be able to eat a better range of kosher meals, according to Ministry of Defence officials.  The meals will include a kosher meat dinner and will be made available for all troops in all the branches of service. Many of the...

Last week it was found that meat from a handful of cloned cows was sold on the market and ended up being consumed by several British families.  It was added later that milk from the animals may also have ended up on supermarket shelves. The news caused headlines to cry...

Ministers have been charged with giving in to the junk food manufacturers by bending out of any strategies that would impose tougher controls on the amount of fat, sugar, and salt content in snacks instead settling to simply lend financial support to healthy eating campaigns. Yesterday health specialists warned that...

The Government has ruled out a ban on trans fats in food that may cause danger even though there is strong evidence that trans fats can cause around 7,000 premature deaths annually. NICE, the official health watchdog, has asked for a veto on the fats that are the culprits often...

KFC, the popular chicken fast food chain has been ordered to pay out £18,452 after pleading guilty to a number of food hygiene offenses at the City of Westminster Magistrates Court. The flagship restaurant located near Leicester Square on Coventry Street pleaded guilty in 2008 after inspectors received numerous complaints. ...

The MEP’s are considering a move to stop profiling nutrients in food and drink, this has alarmed the consumer campaign group Which? who claim such a move would allow many unhealthy food manufacturers to claim that their items were in fact healthy. To further stress their concern, the consumer group...

It has become pretty clear that consumers in general are confused about the labelling on food products. Different manufacturers and retailers using different codes and standards make it hard for a buyer to figure out whether the product they are buying is healthy or not, and what percentage of daily...