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| The Food Standards Agency is to review its handling of the horsemeat scandal, it announced on Wednesday. At a board meeting in Cardiff, the Food Standards Agencywatchdog said it would launch the investigation into its response to the adulteration of processed beef products with horsemeat and pig meat. | The Food Standards Agency is to review its handling of the horsemeat scandal, it announced on Wednesday. At a board meeting in Cardiff, the Food Standards Agencywatchdog said it would launch the investigation into its response to the adulteration of processed beef products with horsemeat and pig meat. |
| The review will be led by Professor Pat Troop, vice-chair of Cambridge University Hospitals and previously chief executive of the Health Protection Agency, who will be able to scrutinise the documents, emails and other records held by the FSA. | The review will be led by Professor Pat Troop, vice-chair of Cambridge University Hospitals and previously chief executive of the Health Protection Agency, who will be able to scrutinise the documents, emails and other records held by the FSA. |
| The FSA has questioned whether it should have been "more alert" to the risks of contamination of meat amid criticism of its failure to identity the problem after the scandal was exposed in January by its Irish counterpart, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). Importantly, the review will look at the agency's response to any "recent prior intelligence" on the threat of horse meat contamination before the FSAI's discovery. Findings will be presented to the board on 4 June and a report will be issued to the FSA by the end of the same month for publication. | The FSA has questioned whether it should have been "more alert" to the risks of contamination of meat amid criticism of its failure to identity the problem after the scandal was exposed in January by its Irish counterpart, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). Importantly, the review will look at the agency's response to any "recent prior intelligence" on the threat of horse meat contamination before the FSAI's discovery. Findings will be presented to the board on 4 June and a report will be issued to the FSA by the end of the same month for publication. |
| The government announced this week its own wide-ranging review of its response "to help restore consumer confidence" as a testing exercise by the European commission of 29 EU countries gave the UK and Ireland a clean bill of health. | The government announced this week its own wide-ranging review of its response "to help restore consumer confidence" as a testing exercise by the European commission of 29 EU countries gave the UK and Ireland a clean bill of health. |
| On Wednesday, Labour shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh said the coalition government's fragmentation of the FSA in 2010 had failed consumers by leaving the food regulatory system "unfit for purpose". | On Wednesday, Labour shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh said the coalition government's fragmentation of the FSA in 2010 had failed consumers by leaving the food regulatory system "unfit for purpose". |
| "The FSA knew that the Irish were testing for horsemeat last November, yet did nothing until positive results came back," Creagh said. "The FSA also need to explain why 14 horses that tested positive for bute [a veterinary painkiller] entered the human food chain before the FSA issued a recall notice." | "The FSA knew that the Irish were testing for horsemeat last November, yet did nothing until positive results came back," Creagh said. "The FSA also need to explain why 14 horses that tested positive for bute [a veterinary painkiller] entered the human food chain before the FSA issued a recall notice." |
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