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 🚨 Registration is NOW OPEN! 🚨                                                🍽️ Authentic Food Festival & Conference📍 Dublin | 📅 27–28 May
Join food professionals, researchers, and fraud fighters from across the globe for two unforgettable days of…
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Speaker: Michael Jackson, Independent Governance Board member of Safe to Trade and former Head of Regulatory Compliance at FSA.
Date: Jan 20, 2026
Time: 11:00 - 12:30 GMT

Ensuring robust food safety practices is essential for protecting consumers,…
Jan 14
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has launched new online guidance to help people buy and use food supplements with confidence, as many look to boost their health in the new year.
The FSA’s top tips for using supplements safely; 

Check the label for…
Jan 12
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PAS 96 Protecting and defending food and drink from deliberate attack - Guide
 
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This PAS provides guidance on preventing and mitigating deliberate (intentional) threats to food and drink and their supply chains, using the Threat Assessment…
Jan 5
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The EFF-CoP: European Food Fraud Community of Practice, is excited to pre-announce the first Authentic Food Festival & Conference on 27–28 May 2026, Dublin, Ireland.
This is a bold new event bringing together science, industry, enforcement, policy,…
Jan 5
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Wishing you a wonderful holiday period and a Happy New Year!
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Dec 19, 2025
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The Government Chemist Conference will take place on 23-24 June 2026 at Nexus, University of Leeds with remote attendance options.
Meet experts to discuss how measurement science and regulation can underpin effective solutions to the challenges…
Dec 18, 2025
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is Canada's leading authority on food fraud oversight. This report shares how they prevented a significant amount of misrepresented food from being sold in Canada.
Between April 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024,…
Dec 18, 2025
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The National Food Crime Unit (NFCU)'s latest industry update:

Highlights the key risks and issues that may be impacting the food industry
Shares best practice to strengthen the industry’s response to food crime
Tells you about NFCU's ongoing work.…
Dec 9, 2025
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Goat meat substitution - Speciation failures
The Food Standards Agency National Food Crime Unit is asking businesses to be alert to goat meat being substituted with other species.
The FSA's Retail Surveillance Survey…
Dec 4, 2025
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A project, funded by the UK Government Chemist and Defra's Food Authenticity Programme, has delivered a practical framework that will enable independent scrutiny of proprietary honey authenticity databases, which are often unpublished and opaque,…
Dec 1, 2025
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Nov 28, 2025
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 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly applied in food safety management, offering new capabilities in data analysis, predictive modelling, and risk-based decision-making.
A review of the literature identifies three primary areas of…
Nov 27, 2025
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