August 9, 2011
CIEH Hopes for Local Food Safety Services
The EU opines that the UK’s way of dealing with food safety controls needs more attention and re-assessment. Lord Young had similar opinions in his review of Health and Safety. The Welsh First Minister also requested for a reassessment of food safety controls in Wales.
All this prompted the Food Standards Agency (FSA) Chief Executive to announce by the later half of previous year that they have plans of reviewing the countrywide food safety officials control delivery. In his next reports, he charted out the main principles of FSA for the deliverance of official controls in the country. He reasoned that the complexities of the current system would make it difficult to achieve those principles.
They suggested that a better approach is to have a centralised model similar to that of the Meat Hygiene Service, now part of the FSA. According to this model, each UK country will have a separate centralised food safety-controlling agency.
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) is not convinced with this proposal. The FSA recently held an Open Board meeting in which the CIEH presented their views and urged for a local food safety service than a centralised delivery model.
In the presentation, the CIEH stated that it identifies the undeniable reasons for reassessing the system. However, the present financial restrictions on the local government and its obligation to lessen the burden of laws on industries are not sound enough reasons for renovating the whole system.
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