Is the EU agriculture directorate proposing compulsory “place of farming” labelling for agricultural products? It sounds too good to be true, and it is. All that’s proposed is an indication of EU or non-EU origin. Even that’s almost unanimously opposed by food processors.
Clarissa Dickson Wright rifles through some food packaging and discusses the problem of vague and misleading labelling with Tory spokesmen. All part of the Tories new Honest Food campaign: meat labelled ‘British’ should be born and bred in Britain
The Conservative Party launches a campaign for honest food, demanding that food labelled “British” should be born and bred in Britain. It’s hard to argue with but sadly often not the case in Britain today.
FSA publishes complete list of meat processors and companies affected by Irish pork contamination alert. FSAI and FSA confirm contamination of beef but offer reassurance of lower risk.
The contamination of some Irish pork with carcinogenic dioxins has led to the recall and withdrawal of almost all pork products from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Both the UK Food Standards Agency and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland are advising the public not to consume any raw or cooked pork products [...]
To decode your food, use The Tracing Paper’s Food Tracer – a searchable list of all UK identification codes.
What are those oval codes?
If you buy meat – or fish, milk, cheese or any food produced from or by an animal – in the European Union, you should find an oval symbol like this somewhere on [...]
Philip Pullman once wrote that books are not eggs, his point being that every book is different whereas we expect every egg we buy to be the same. Agreed, books should not be treated as a commodity, but nor should eggs. Every egg is an individual creation, laid by a hen of some particular variety, fed and kept in a particular way, in a particular location.
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