Podcasts about Food Standards Agency

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2024 24:55

Proposals for abattoirs to take on more of the cost of vets and meat inspectors are 'excessive and dangerous' according to the meat industry. The Association of Independent Meat suppliers or AIMS which represents both big and small slaughterhouses, says the Food Standards Agency's plan to remove or reduce the discount offered to smaller abattoirs risks 'single-handedly destroying the foundations of the British meat industry. The FSA have urged people to take part in their consultation.Farmers are getting the highest price for their beef animals in England and Wales, for ten years. Part of the reason, according to Meat Promotion Wales, is growing domestic demand. We speak to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board.Some Welsh farmers claim they're having to choose between the risk of polluting rivers or breaking the law, ahead of a controversial muck-spreading ban. New rules forbid slurry spreading across Wales from mid October to January, in an effort to protect water quality. After a record breaking year of rainfall across many parts of the UK water management has become an ever pressing issue for farmers. In Wales, it's a year since the launch of the Welsh Government's Natural Flood Management Accelerator programme. We visit a natural flood management project that's part of the two-year £4.6 million pound programme.Conservationists in Devon are working with Natural England to see whether there could be some kind of financial support for farmers who make space for beavers on their land as part of natural flood management.Presenter = Charlotte Smith Producer = Rebecca Rooney

08/10/24 - Cell-cultivated protein, natural flood management, Dartmoor wild camping

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 14:18

More than a million pounds is being given by the Government to the Food Standards Agency, to decide what needs to be put in place to ensure new, "cell-cultivated" foodstuffs will be safe to eat. We hear from the FSA's Chief Scientific Advisor.The long-running case about whether the public can 'wild camp' on Dartmoor, will be heard in the Supreme Court, where a final determination will be made. The dispute is between Dartmoor National Park and landowners Alexander and Diana Darwall, who own Stall Moor common on south-west Dartmoor.It's one year since the launch of the Welsh Government's Natural Flood Management Accelerator programme - a 2-year, £4.6 million investment in nature-based solutions to reduce flooding. We visit one of the 23 projects.And people living in a small coastal community near Robin's Hood Bay in North Yorkshire say they fear being cut off this winter, after a landslip caused the closure of the only road in and out of their village. It's not yet known when the road will be fixed. In the meantime the council has set up an alternative route - a 12 mile diversion via a former railway line - but, locals say it's unsuitable and potentially unsafe during the winter months.Presented by Anna Hill Produced by Heather Simons

07/10/24 Charges for abattoir inspections, water management

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2024 12:03

Plans to get abattoirs to take on more of the cost of vets and meat inspectors are "excessive and dangerous" according to the meat industry. The Association of Independent Meat Suppliers, (AIMS) which represents both big and small slaughterhouses, says the Food Standards Agency's proposal to remove or reduce the discount offered to smaller abattoirs risks "single handedly destroying the foundations of the British meat industry".' The FSA, which covers England, Northern Ireland and Wales, has issued a "call for evidence" on the proposed changes, saying that the costs of providing inspectors and official vets have increased and that needs to be passed onto businesses. All week we're going to look at water management. After a year that has seen storms and vast amounts of flooding, how we respond to weather events in future as the climate changes is a hot topic. We speak to one of the scientists leading a new, government funded research project. Using cutting edge technology the new Flood and Drought Research Infrastructure will measure flooding and droughts to create models that will allow us to predict them, and to find out how we might be able to reduce their impact in the future. Presenter = Charlotte Smith Producer = Rebecca Rooney

Ep 139. From The Vaults. Flowers on Cakes

The Business of Cake Making Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2024 60:14

We are having a few weeks off, whilst Sammie is travelling around Europe. We thought it would be the perfect time to dip back into our back catalogue, which after 4 and a half years is quite extensive. This week is one of Bronya's Choices - The Ultimate Guide to Putting Flowers on Cakes. It's a topic that we are all a bit fuzzy around the edges on, so we went straight to the experts and got our information from the Food Standards Agency! The email we got back was from @food.gov.uk - you can't get much more official than that! Who's responsibility is it if you get given a toxic flower from a florist? Who responsibility is it to put the flowers on the cake correctly? What happens if you do it wrong? How do you do it right? Also, rumour has it that there is a food safe florist tape on the market - we investigate. This is a crucial episode for anyone adding fresh flowers to their cakes!

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21/09/24 Farming Today This Week: Radical change to food safety proposed, flood repairs outstanding, trail hunting, blackberries

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2024 24:51

Radical changes to food safety are being proposed. The Food Standards Agency is discussing removing responsibility from cash strapped councils and relying instead on data collected by food companies and supermarkets. Chris Elliott, professor of food safety at Queen's University Belfast and Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, says more work and more consultation is needed.As the Met Office predicts another autumn and winter of destructive floods, a number of flood defences in England damaged during last winter's storms are still yet to be fixed. And the National Farmers' Union has warned that many farms still in dire need of flood support.It's been 20 years since fox hunting was banned by Tony Blair's government. Since then trail or drag hunting are two different ways of hunting without doing anything illegal. In drag hunting the hounds follow a non-animal scent laid by a drag pulled on a string, in trail hunting they follow an animal scent. Critics say trail hunting can be used as a smokescreen for illegal hunting and in its election manifesto Labour said it would ban trail hunting.Picking blackberries from the hedgerows, along with the wild damson and sloes, is one of those end of summer outings, marking the seasonal shift. September is also the biggest month for selling commercially grown blackberries. Growers say new varieties mean they're bigger and better and while sales are up about 6% year on year, they're nowhere near as popular here in the UK as raspberries. Is it worth buying blackberries, at £2 or more a punnet, when you can pick them for free? Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

19/09/24 - Radical changes to food safety proposed, tech to fight food fraud, curlew conservation, carers' countryside respite

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2024 14:07

Radical changes to food safety are being proposed. The Food Standards Agency is discussing removing responsibility from cash strapped councils and relying instead on data collected by food companies and supermarkets. Under plans discussed yesterday by its board the FSA would take direct control of things like hygiene and food standards for large companies, leaving local authority inspectors to concentrate on smaller businesses. It has piloted the idea, working with five retailers and says the system is 'suitably robust and proportionate' and gives more information on compliance than the current approach. Chris Elliott, professor of food safety at Queen's University Belfast and Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, says more work and more consultation is needed.Technology should be used to combat food crime; the call comes from the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers and follows a report from the Food Standards Agency which highlighted 'new opportunities' for criminals. The number of curlews has dropped by more than half since 1995 and the bird is high on the Red List of endangered species. We hear how the farming community in North Wales is getting involved in conservation.How a charity which takes young carers farming and camping on Dartmoor is giving them a rare opportunity to get away from their responsibilities and out into the countryside. Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

517: Food allergy regulations and opportunities - are you up to date?

Wedding Pros who are ready to grow - with Becca Pountney

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2024 55:14

Food allergies affect millions of people, and when food providers get it wrong, we know the consequences can be catastrophic. The Food Standards Agency says around 6% of adults have a clinically confirmed food allergy, that is around 2.4 million people, and that figure only covers the UK. Ensuring mistakes are not made in labelling or use of ingredients is, of course, a matter of safety for the consumer, but a mistake can also have a devastating impact on those working in the food industry. None of this is designed to create a culture of fear, but merely to highlight just how serious this topic is. In this episode of the podcast, recorded live at Food Matters Live held in Ascot in April 2024, we look at the risks, the rules, and the opportunities (yes, there are some) when it comes to the relationship between allergens and food. Is your company fully up to date on the latest regulations? Are your processes as safe as they could be? And could small changes help you increase your customer base? Our expert panel offer their experience and insights in this vital area, and offer answer to some of those crucial questions. Guests: Rob Easton, Head of Environmental Health, Shield Safety Caroline Benjamin, Founder, Food Allergy Aware Mitch Lee, Head of Sales, Purezza & La Fauxmagerie Natascha Gaut, Director, Regulatory, Compliance and Investigations, DWF Law LLP Ryan Panchoo, Founder, Borough 22 Doughnuts

Venue relationships, FSA guidelines and business success with Krissy Quinton

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2024 29:48 Transcription Available

Today I'm chatting with Krissy Quinton, founder of Primrose cakes. After building a successful wedding cake business herself, Krissy now supports newer cake makers in the practicality of setting up a cake business. From food hygiene to FSA guidelines, we cover it all today - and whether you are a cake maker or not, there's a lot in this episode for you!Get the toxic flowers free downloadFind Krissy on InstagramVisit Primrose CakesTime stamps:Starting a Cake Business (00:00:54) Krissy's journey from a teacher to starting her cake business, experiences with getting recommended at venues, and involvement in the new guidance from the Food Standards Agency.Transition from Teaching to Cake Making (00:01:57) Krissy's transition from teaching to cake making, self-taught cake decorating, and formal training.First Customers and Cake Making (00:03:03) How Krissy got her first customers, started with celebration cakes, and added weddings to her business.Getting Recommended at Venues (00:07:34) Krissy's process of getting recommended at venues, the challenges, and the importance of pushing oneself.Transition to Full Self-Employment (00:10:20) Krissy's transition from teaching to full self-employment, managing the risk, and navigating the decision.Struggles in the Cake Business (00:12:50) Krissy's struggles with customer ghosting, balancing quiet and busy spells, and the personal impact of business decisions.Guidance on Using Flowers on Cakes (00:19:05) Krissy's involvement in the new guidance from the Food Standards Agency on using flowers on cakes and her interest in teaching others about it.The guidance from the Food Standards Agency (00:19:59) Krissy shares her involvement in providing feedback on the guidance about using flowers on cakes.Top line advice on using flowers on cakes (00:20:48) Krissy provides tips on using fresh flowers and foliage on food, including knowing the flowers and using organic ones.Responsibility of cake makers (00:23:04) Krissy emphasizes the cake maker's responsibility in ensuring the safety of the flowers and foliage used on the cake.Expected date for the guidance release (00:24:50) Krissy discusses the expected release date of the guidance and clarifies that it's not a law but a soft guidance.The importance of branding and marketing (00:25:42) Krissy talks about the significance of branding and marketing in her business and the changes she implemented.Resources for cake makers (00:27:45) Krissy shares her website and free downloads, including information on toxic flowers and foliage not to be used on cakes.

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22/06/24 - The Royal Highland Show, UK salads and heritage wheat

Portable Practical Pediatrics

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2024 25:05

The 240th Royal Highland Show is taking place just outside Edinburgh, and more than 200,000 people expected to attend over the 4 days of the show. We hear from some of the breeders showing cattle at the show.In 2022, the UK grew 162,000 tonnes of lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, sweet peppers and celery - worth more than 200 million pounds. This time of year is normally peak salad season, but the months of rain and below average temperatures have been bad news for the country's salad growers. We find out what that means for both field crops and those grown in glasshouses.An e-coli outbreak across the UK has been traced back to some salad leaves, which were used in a wide range of food, including sandwiches and wraps. The Food Standards Agency has not been able to say whether those leaves came from UK farms, or were imported. We ask what it means for farmers.And could the plant breeding achievements of the Green Revolution be started again from scratch? That's the hope of scientists at the John Innes Centre, who say modern commercial varieties of wheat used by farmers could be replaced with better ones, using wheat lines collected a century ago. Presented by Caz Graham Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons

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Dr. M's Women and Children First Podcast #68 – John Warner, M.D. – Allergy, Milk and Prevention

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2024 82:35

This week we sit down with Dr. John Warner, an Emeritus professor of Pediatrics at the Imperial College of London in the United Kingdom and also at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. We discuss his recent paper entitled: Strategies and Future Opportunities for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Cow Milk Allergy. Dr. Warner completed his undergraduate medical training in the School of Medicine, University of Sheffield and his initial pediatric experience was at the Children''s Hospital, Sheffield in the United Kingdom. He moved to London as Professor of Pediatrics and Head of Department at Imperial College St Mary's hospital campus. He is also Hon Professor of Pediatrics in the University of Cape Town. In 2008 he became Director of Research for the Women and Children's Clinical Programme Group, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT). He was the lead for pediatrics in both the Biomedical Research Centre in ICHT and the NW London CLAHRC (Collaboration for Applied Health Research and Care) and was President of the Academic Pediatrics Association. Professor Warner's research has focused on the early life origins of asthma and related allergic and respiratory disorders. He has published over 500 papers in scientific journals on these topics. He was Editor in Chief of the journal Paediatric Allergy and Immunology from 1997-2010 and chairman of the paediatric section of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology for 5 years until 2010. He was also a member of the Speciality and Training committee of the World Allergy Organisation and a past Trustee of the charity known as The Anaphylaxis Campaign. He was a member of the Advisory Committee for Novel Foods and Processes of the Food Standards Agency for 12 years until 2012 and was recognised for his work in food allergy research by the award of an OBE in 2013. Please enjoy my conversation with Professor Warner, Dr. M

Dr Naomi Wolf - Enhancing Health Through Nutrition: Strengthening Your Immune System

Hearts of Oak Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2024 44:00 Transcription Available

Show notes and Transcript 'Cooking with Naomi' is probably not something that Dr Wolf had on her list of things to do, but it fits perfectly into the widespread concern of health and food. Naomi Wolf joins us once again to discuss a series of videos she has been doing called 'Liberty Lifestyle' that highlight natural remedies that are not fashionable for many of us in the West but are essential ingredients in many parts of the world and have been used for centuries. We have been sold a lie that Big Pharma are here to keep us well, and healthy eating seems to be a thing of the past so Naomi gives us a little history behind it and shows how this is a massive myth. We start by looking at why her recent episode on the benefits of Mustard Seed Oil was banned, why would a discussion about a healthy ingredient be so dangerous? Naomi tells us of the effectiveness of natural remedies like mustard seed oil and turmeric, how FDA regulations are impacting herbal remedies, and of the holistic benefits of alternative treatments for cancer. This episode advocates for informed consent, challenges mainstream medical interventions and empowers individuals to explore alternative health solutions. Share this with your friends, even your liberal ones.... Because this topic effects us all. Dr. Naomi Wolf is a bestselling author, columnist, and professor; she is a graduate of Yale University and received a doctorate from Oxford. She is cofounder and CEO of DailyClout.io, a successful civic tech company. Since the publication of her landmark international bestseller, The Beauty Myth, which The New York Times called “one of the most important books of the 20th century," Dr Wolf's other seven bestsellers have been translated worldwide. The End of America and Give Me Liberty: A Handbook For American Revolutionaries, predicted the current crisis in authoritarianism and presented effective tools for citizens to promote civic engagement. Dr Wolf trains thought leaders of tomorrow, teaching public presentation to Rhodes Scholars and co-leading a Stony Brook University that gave professors skills to become public intellectuals. She was a Rhodes scholar herself, and was an advisor to the Clinton re-election campaign and to Vice President Al Gore. Dr Wolf has written for every major news outlet in the US and many globally; she had four opinion columns, including in The Guardian and the Sunday Times of London. She lives with her husband, veteran and private detective Brian, in the Hudson Valley. Interview recorded 2.4.24 Connect with Dr Wolf and Daily Clout... Website www.dailyclout.io X x.com/naomirwolf x.com/DailyClout VIDEOS rumble.com/user/DailyClout BOOKS https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Naomi-Wolf/author/B000APBBU8?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true Connect with Hearts of Oak... WEBSITE heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP heartsofoak.org/shop/ (Hearts of Oak) And I am delighted to have Dr. Naomi Wolf back with us once again. Naomi, thank you so much for your time today. (Dr Naomi Wolf) Thank you so much for having me. I love speaking with you and your audience. Always great having you and so much to talk about. But I think first thing I'll mention, your books, obviously, you've had you on twice before. Well, a couple even more times. But on your latest book, the latest one, Facing the Beast, Courage, Faith and Resistance in a New Dark Age. And I love that spiritual thread that runs through that. And before that, the body of others, new authoritarians, COVID-19 and the war against the human. So they are all available and the links are all in the description. But I wanted you all to talk about something quite different. And that's maybe eating for health, I think, and taking back control of your immune system. And I came across, I think it was the one on mustard seed oil, whenever that got restricted. And then I started delving into a number of the other videos you had done. And I'm guessing you probably hadn't thought that you were going to be doing cooking videos from your kitchen. No, indeed. And, you know, as I headline it, I made bad cooks. So this is the bad cook cooks that I had to change my life when I realized just how serious the interventions in our food supply and our pharmaceutical, like over-the-counter supply were. Well, there seems to be no end to your talents, Naomi, and I've really enjoyed watching those. But maybe we'll get into the mustard seed oil video. I'd never heard of mustard seed oil, and I had no idea that actually it was a bad product. And then it got bad. And then I started delving into that. And the first thing is, where can I get mustard seed oil? That's my first thought of the UK. But tell us what that was about. And then we'll step back and maybe look at, mention some of the other videos and this whole, I guess, battle with FDA and what their role is in our health. But mustard seed oil, why on earth was that banned? [2:30] It's so crazy, Peter. I, you know, people who know my work know that I'm not a I don't think of myself. I've never prepared. I'm not a doctor. I'm not a nutritionist. I'm a poetry defill. You know, I have no background in any of this. And I I didn't think I'd ever be shining a light on this issue of taking back control of our health and well-being. But this is what happened to me. As you know, because you've had me on several times for this reason, I oversaw and oversee a group of 3,250 doctors and scientists and specialists and biostatisticians and medical fraud investigators, clinicians. Research scientists who united to go through the Pfizer documents released under court order, there are 450 000 documents and the fda had asked for those to be kept hidden for 75 years well our volunteers have now produced almost 100 reports linking to the originals so you don't have to take anyone's word for it you can click through and see the original document right, that is it links to and... The latest book is coming out in a month I believe. That is correct and what they found, sadly, is the greatest crime against humanity in recorded history, that Pfizer, with the collusion of the FDA, meaning the collusion of the CDC, the collusion of the White House, all of whom were looped in to this genocide, really, and sterilization of the population. They inflicted catastrophic damage on us that is not over, right? And on Western Europe, no doubt, everywhere Pfizer was rolled out. And this is just what the documents we got to see because of the successful lawsuit. So we don't know the AstraZeneca papers. The Moderna papers are just coming out. We're seeing the same sterilization effect in the Moderna papers. But we see from the Pfizer documents that Pfizer knew they were killing people, creating catastrophic events like stroke and blood clots, lung clots, leg clots, dementias, heart damage, catastrophic scale liver damage, kidney damage. They knew that the vaccines didn't work to stop COVID. The third most common side effect in the documents is COVID. And they concluded a month after rollout that the vaccines had failed to stop COVID, didn't tell us. And the centrepiece, and I'm just recapping quickly, is that they were grossly experimenting on disrupting human reproduction. And they knew they were causing what they called reproductive disorders in women, especially at industrial scale. And so now we have a 13 to 20% drop in live births in the United States and Western Europe. Igor Chudov, a mathematician who works with government and databases, confirms that there are a million missing babies in Western Europe now. And we know why. So given all of that, and given the, It caused such an emotional toll to look at this and report on this week after week that I started to think, well, okay, we know what the sicknesses are. How do we heal people, right? We need to be able to focus on something positive and constructive for humanity so that people have some hope, You know, that they are not beholden for their health to the same institutions and industries that murdered them or and sterilized them and disabled them. So I began to look back at, I began a series called Liberty Lifestyle, right, that looks back at traditional remedies, forgotten remedies that used to be very common. And also alternative treatments, notably herbs and spices, which have been used for millennia to treat the kinds of conditions that people now have, you know, have always had, but now, that the injuries, we know that they're ramped up. And so I've been looking at, okay, if my loved ones who are vaccinated are going to have circulatory problems, what has traditionally healed circulation, if people are going to have heart problems, what's traditionally protected the heart? And then, you know, and other questions, right, based on what we knew to be the damage and injuries in the Pfizer documents. And so what has been amazing about these videos, and the research I've been doing is, you mentioned it with mustard oil. Well, A, what's amazing is that it's even more censored than our work on the Pfizer documents, like even more censored, as censored as you can be. And I was censored by the White House and the CDC and the, you know, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Collins, Dr. Walensky, 15 White House staffers in 2021 singled out my tweet about menstrual dysregulation and identified it, put pressure on Twitter and Facebook to censor me. This has all come out in the lawsuits by two attorneys general. As censored as our work on the Pfizer documents has been, And even my alert to women before the Pfizer documents, you know, as recently as last week when my husband was detained in the Netherlands for seven hours and questioned by three different officials when I was in Europe for the first time to talk to people face to face about the Pfizer documents. As censored as all of that has been, our work on common traditional remedies such as a mustard oil or turmeric have been even more censored. Literally YouTube de-platformed us for the mustard seed oil. Twitter briefly froze us. You know, every, to this day, I just did a report on a sperm suppressor and a hormonal oestrogen disruptor in personal lubricant over the counter CVS personal lubricant. And YouTube is having none of it. And it's not because it's an adult subject. I mean, you know, there's polyethylene glycol and toothpaste and you know YouTube is having none of it so it and it stands to reason, I mean I looked up the numbers and the numbers for, basically we're not just threatening one product of one pharma company now right since what i'm doing is is not just saying oh turmeric's been used for millennia but actually looking up peer-reviewed studies on turmeric or mobby bark and coconut water or, you know, sassafras or guava leaves or, you know, all of the traditional remedies I've explored, the peer-reviewed studies show very often much better outcomes using these remedies than their pharmaceutical rivals. So I'm not surprised. And you can imagine the scale of the market that we're then threatening. So I'm not surprised that I'm being so widely censored, but I do feel like it's a very positive thing to explore. It's changed my life for sure. And I do feel like it's a race against time because many of the traditional remedies that have been marginalized, you can say, well, this is just normal pharmaceutical greed. They don't want us to know that actually you stabilize hypertension in two weeks more easily with Mabi bark and coconut water, traditionally in use for centuries in the the Caribbean than with, you know, blood pressure medication that is patented based on pharmaceutical petroleum derivative products. But in addition, we're finding shocking, like if they can't get us with the injections to restrict our sex drive and our reproductive health, they're getting us with our food supply and our personal care supply, meaning we found a sperm suppressant in common baking mixes in the United States. I don't think these are allowed in Britain or Europe, but it's worth looking. I just threw out Progresso breadcrumbs because they had the same sperm suppressant. We don't need a sperm suppressant in our food supply, any of us. And also in our personal care products, we're finding parabens, which are hormone disruptors, bad for men and bad for women. But I'm literally astonished to find it in personal lubricant, which goes right into your body if you're a woman and directly affects your partner if he's a man. So it's shocking that these ingredients continue to to be fed into our food and personal care supply, to lower our sex drive, lower the aggression of men as warriors, for sure. You know, destabilize the family, I would argue, because everyone's less happy and degenderize us, basically. But this is all part of, I think I've so many conversations with, with friends in the UK saying, actually, where do we get food? And beginning to to look at going back to how food is produced and going to local farms and that sort of thing. And this is a much wider conversation, I guess, of massive mistrust that a lot of us now have over the last four years of regulatory bodies of what we are told and looking for alternatives. So I get what you're doing fits into that massive void that people are crying out for, just good, honest, straightforward ideas, of how we need to live our lives better because the government certainly aren't going to do it for us. It's up to each of us. Indeed. And we used to, in the United States, we have what used to be a very good law compelling the FDA to compel any food or medicine to fully disclose all of the ingredients. And I've been shocked to find that, you know, there are huge carve outs. I mean, I shouldn't be shocked at anything now after the Pfizer documents. But, you know, one of the issues I disclosed in my video today is that in the U.S., toothpaste only has to disclose a fraction of 1% of their ingredients. We literally don't know what's in the rest of the ingredients. However, we're warned that if we swallow any toothpaste, we need to go right to the poison control center or right to the hospital. So, yes, the distrust is, I guess, long overdue. I think there's they're different. I feel like when I'm in Europe, the food supply is healthier because I don't think you're allowed some of the adulterants that we have that we have in the United States. I mean, there are memes on social media and I've experienced this for myself where there's a long list of psycho chemicals added to a global brand in the US that is not added, at least not disclosed in the UK. However, I think that, I know from having lived in the UK and gone back many times to visit, not since the pandemic, but I know that your wonderful tradition of healthy farming, good treatment of animals. Local production of vegetables and fruits is being disrupted by Big Ag and no doubt by Big Pharma the way ours is in the US. And one of the immediate things, too, is they want to mRNA inject animals and they want to, like in the US, they're they're starting to do kind of a social credit score for animals or like, surveillance for animals that you that every single animal is tagged. You know, livestock is tagged. And they also have ridiculous laws in the United States. Thomas Massey in our Congress is fighting, is trying to pass freedom to farm bills or food freedom bills. And I'm sure you'll need something similar in the UK, from what I understand, in the sense that there are laws against local producers of livestock or cows or sheep slaughtering their cows locally and bringing the meat to farmers markets. They have to be fed into this whole kind of industrial food system and shipped for miles and slaughtered in FDA slaughterhouses that are largely, you know, then many of our meat producers like Smithfield are owned by China or being bought up by China. Right. So you're not even getting, you're getting food processed by our worst enemies, the ones who my reporting showed have the IP, the manufacture, the distribution of these mRNA injections that have decimated our populations. So why would you trust food manufactured that way? And from what I understand, I do think something similar is happening in the UK. Like you used to be able to, I remember when I was a graduate student in Oxford, you could go to the local market and local farmers were selling their local apples and carrots and their local meat in a pretty farm-to-table way and I would be surprised if that is still as reliable as it used to be but you tell me. Well yeah with the regulatory board we've always had kind of a gold-plated regulatory industry across Europe on everything and we I guess see the US has been lax in in different industries but I think that's, there is a lot of restrictions now, certainly the farming community, we've had massive demonstrations, as they have all over Europe, at the restrictions and the pushback against farming. You said you're in the Netherlands and they are some of the biggest farmers in Europe, actually, for what they provide. And they are up in arms at the massive restrictions that they face, which I guess means that actually the food will be brought in from elsewhere, from far away. So, yeah, we're seeing a big change, certainly in our farming industry all across Europe. Well, let's think about that, right? If the people are brought in from far away, you don't – I mean –, This is a parallel, right? And as I always say, I'm the daughter of immigrants. Granddaughter of immigrants. I believe in legal immigration. But if you have no control, if the globalist plan is to throw millions of people from all over the world at Britain, at France, at Germany, at the Netherlands, you're not going to have a European culture in the same way that you used to. You don't have a European culture that you can or a British culture, right, or a Scottish culture, Welsh culture that you can tend as a social contract. And that's not a racist thing to say. Right. Anyone can be Welsh. Anyone can be British from anywhere in the world. But citizens need to be able to have borders and have laws about how many people that country can absorb and acculturate to that culture, right? And if they can't do that, then they no longer have a country or a culture. And that's the globalist plan, right? Because destroying Western Europe as a beacon of liberty, destroying Britain as the home of the Magna Carta and the free press, all of that depends on throwing millions of people who don't come from constitutional republics or share European values at Europe, and I'm including Britain. So having said that, think about your food supply, right? If your food supply comes from, if you're in Wales and your food supply comes from a Welsh farmer up the road, you can pretty much trust it. You know, if he poisons his neighbours or she poisons her neighbours, that can't be concealed. But if you bring in the food supply from anywhere and you add additives like Apeel, which is this Bill Gates-derived coating on vegetables... Or, which I found to be the case in Europe and in Britain, the legislation is so opaque that you really don't know what's in, what you're bringing in to your local greengrocer, local supermarket at Sainsbury's. Then horrible things can be done to your population just like they're being done to ours. No, 100%. And we now have labelling that it says has a Union Jack on it. You think that's a British product, but it only means it's packaged in the UK. It could be from anywhere else. So I know. So it goes on and on. And you think you can trust that, but actually you can't. But tell us about it because, again, it's a bit different in the UK than it is in the States. You've got the FDA that covers everything, covers the pharmaceutical industry, the food industry. We kind of have separate. We've got the Food Standards Agency for the food side and then the Medicine and Healthcare Regulatory Agency, which is the pharmaceutical side. But tell us how the control that the FDA, the Food and Drugs Administration, have in the States, because it does seem to be all encompassing. I've talked to farmers and they talk about how they, I think there are only four or five processing, meat processing plants in America now. And so it's all reduced down to a industry that controls that process. But the FDA seemed to have absolute control of everything that the Americans consume, just as the FSA, the same in the UK. Yeah, I mean, I have to drill into it in a little more detail. But broadly speaking, you're 100% right. I would throw in another agency called the USDA, which oversees farms and what happens to farms. So something has to be USDA approved before a farmer can bring it to market, certainly when it comes to milk and meat. So we do have a much more centralized system now, and it's one that no doubt the EU is trying to impose on Europe. I think Europe has, I mean, look at, you know, France and Italy. They have such a legacy of terroir, right? You know, this local production, they fetishize it as much as they should, right? So much a part of tourism that you go to Burgundy and you get grapes from Burgundy. You go to, you know, you get your pâté from Normandy. Your people have permission to call something champagne if it's from champagne, right? And that's been wiped out in the U.S. And so I do think Europeans and British people should look at what's happened in the U.S. And the fight we're having here over our food supply as their future if they don't resist resist and rebel. And especially resist EU directives, leave the EU like more aggressively than Britain's managed to leave the EU, and reclaim the right to grow and sell and buy food. Because what's happened in the US is not only this massive centralization, you're right, there are only a few meat processing plants, but also what you see behind me is an agricultural cultural area. It's the Hudson Valley. And it's a very rich agricultural area. And there have been a lot of small food producers in this area. But what's happening is that the state is intentionally making it more and more difficult for people to be the independent farmers that they used to be in our nation's history, let alone for citizens to purchase from independent farmers. So for example, right up the road, there used to be this wonderful barn where you could on the honour system go into a little shed and there was cheese and milk products and ice cream made from these cows that were in this giant shed. And you would just leave your $5 for the pint of ice cream. And it was fantastic. And you'd sit in the sun and you could see the cows and you could eat your ice cream. And it was just, it contributed to the local economy. It was something tourists love to to do. The cows looked happy. Well, I spoke to the owners of that little dairy and they were freaking out a few years ago because the state said, suddenly you need a $60,000 investment in pasteurizing this milk. And by the way, it is illegal in many places to purchase raw milk and pasteurized milk in the United States. And they weren't even. They weren't even selling raw milk. They had this $60,000 equipment imposed on them unnecessarily. And she kept saying, it was heart-breaking, she kept saying, look at our cows, they're healthy. We don't need this for our cows to be healthy. Our cows are healthy. So that was designed we're seeing all these regulations to drive people out of, to close small farms right and then BlackRock buys up the land or the big producers buy up the the farm essentially and streamline it, we bought half a cow from a neighbor and like, we had to, it was like a drug deal. We had to go to them without anyone knowing and they loaded these packages up in the back of our car and, but we feel happy to be able to do that because we know that they raised the cow, they slaughtered the cow, they didn't put any sperm suppressor in the cow's meat or mRNA. But we're down to that, right? Let me give you one other example. They're so sneaky. Like the Union Jack thing is just typical of the sneakiest. At the start of the pandemic, there used to be a thriving farmer's market in the town of Great Barrington up the road. Well, I was astonished to go to the farmer's market during lockdowns and a farmer's market is outdoors, right? So it's the safest possible place you could get your food if you're worried about a respiratory infection. Well, I was astonished that they had made the population of farmers in the farmer's market half the number it had been and I said why are there only half the number of farmers here and one of the people had been tasked in such a Marxist way by the governor with telling which farmers could show up and which couldn't which meant that their farms would go out of business right they wouldn't have an income if they couldn't come to the farmer's market and she was very upset that that was her job but she had to do it if there was to be a farmer's market per our governor. And it was just and she said it so that there won't be crowding. But here's the farmer's market on one parking lot and here's an empty parking lot right across the street. They could have just doubled the acreage of the farmer's market and had all the farmers. Right. But it was intentionally designed to crush local farms. And that's what it did. Tell us some of this seems to go full circle. Some of your background is in political consultancy work where you control the narrative and you decide who gets which information. And at one time, I guess the political system controlled the news narrative. It's not so much anymore with 24-hour news. But it seems that the FDA are the gatekeepers of food and health in the same way that politicians want to control the news narrative. Is there a way past that because it does seem certainly, well I don't even know if you can blame the democrats or the republicans but it seems to be they're given more and more power and authority and you mentioned that sixty thousand dollars to fit into new regulations that more and more regulations come that don't seem to have a reason. But it does seem as though they are the absolute gatekeepers of all our health and food access. Yeah, it's true. But I don't want you to, you know, Europeans and British viewers to be lulled into thinking it's not a risk to their own system. For example, I was a student in Britain, a graduate student for many years, and I was in your national health system. The NHS is an even more rigid gatekeeper of health than in some ways than our system, where at least you can get a private doctor pretty easily. At least there's private medicine. I mean, the state, like it's been so interesting to me to go back to Europe and see how Europeans and British people are losing their liberties. And it's so genius, because both in Britain, even with this nominal exit Brexit, and in Europe in general, what I've seen is that for the post-war era, everything has been made increasingly lovely. If you rely on the state, you get your benefits, you get your health care, you get your free university, or your low-cost university. but, that seemed fine for decades when the EU or the NHS was not trying to murder you or imprison you in a 15 minute city or, you know, kill your grandma with Midazolam or whatever the British version of Remdesivir is. But then in the, then in 2020, it's like the, the lulling seductive superstructure got, the window dressing got pulled away. And all of a sudden you realize like, oh my God, if the NHS wants to administer end of life drugs for someone they say has COVID, they can do it. And there's no alternative. And if the NHS wants to, I got so many desperate emails from NHS workers saying, I don't want this injection. My daughter doesn't want this injection. There's nowhere else to go, right? If you're a nurse or a doctor, very few other places to go to make a living. You know, the, the, oh, I remember just one tiny example. I was a graduate student and I went to my local NHS clinic and don't get mad at me because you pay 60 pounds if you're not British, which is as it should be. I was not mooching off your system, but there, there was no other clinic to go to. And they said, oh, you can't have your records. And I'm like, why can't I have my my records. They're like, well, because look at the fine print, you've, there is no medical privacy anymore. And Boots, I went to Boots and I'm like, I want my records. They're like, we don't have them there. It's digital. Like it's all digital, right? I'm a tech CEO. It's all digital. They're like, they're in a warehouse in, you know, bodily. No, they're not. You have my records. You're just not giving them to me. I understood that the NHS data was being monetized and sold to third parties. People's privacy was being sold. My privacy was being sold. But you had absolutely no recourse, you know, legally. I mean, the hoops people went through. And British people sign away their right, essentially, to sue their doctors or the NHS if something terrible happens to them by the fine print they have to sign in the contract in order to just get seen by the doctor. So the state screws you as, you know, active advocates of your own health if you want the NHS to care for you in any way. And it's very difficult to go around the NHS. So I just want to say that because this is intentional, right? And for 50 years, it was lovely or 60 years. And then they're like, OK, now we've got you. And same with, you know, benefits. I mean, people in the Netherlands were telling me they were scared to speak up about losing their liberties because they were scared of losing their benefits. And it's not great in a way that in the US there aren't any benefits, you know, except Social Security or Medicare. But it does mean that people aren't scared of losing their benefits. So we'd be able to mount a more effective resistance. So I just want to like... How can I put it, yes the FDA is very effectively strangling our food and drugs but there's a lot of illusion of choice in Britain and Europe that does not bear scrutiny. Trust me most of our viewers will have gone past the point where we believe that our institutions want the best for us. Hey can I, you've done the the whole thing on food and your cooking and your herbs or I think it's herbs with an H but anyway I will go with herbs, but mustard oil and then turmeric where people obviously have heard of and then you'd one, astragalus anti-cancer immune boosting and again all the I think we've been told up to this point that, that is kind of backward those are societies that actually haven't advanced and we've advanced so far that we've got got a drug for that problem and you're going back to actually, you don't need a drug, in fact if you take a drug you probably need another one and another one to fix all the side effects that have happened, but what, whenever that video was restricted, I mean what were your thoughts, you're simply talking about a herbal, not even a medicine, just a herb that's been used for some of these things are Chinese medicine that have been used for maybe hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. And suddenly in America, it's bad. What was your first response when you're thinking, you're just trying to put out good information on food and then suddenly that gets removed? Well, I mean, it's a gift as a journalist, right? The more bots and trolls and censorship you see in a certain subject, it's like a big sign saying, dig here, there's a story. So I was struck, but then I did the math and I understand why these resources are being thrown at suppressing this information. I mean, I mentioned some of the numbers, but let me just give you one example briefly. There's a tonic called Lydia Pinkham's tonic, and it was famous in the 19th century, may have been sold in Britain. I don't know. It was an American tonic. Lydia Pinkham had learned about these herbs from Native Americans who had used them for, as you say, centuries. And it was bought. She was heralded as a pioneer in the history books I'd read as a child. Then the formula got bought and reformulated by a small pharma company, then bought again and reformulated by a larger pharma company. And now you cannot get the original version of Lydia Pinkham's tonic. And notably, I saw that in JSTOR and all over the Internet, there's like a campaign that started in about 2020 to smear her as a quack and to even smear the women who loved her product, which were thousands and thousands as like alcoholics. Right. Because she used some alcohol in her formulation. Well, that's really interesting. You know, whenever you see a smear campaign, there's something going on. And I bought the herbs to reconstruct Lydia Pinkham's tonic. Well, you know what? What are the numbers? The numbers are astonishing. It's a 16 billion dollar menopause industry worldwide. And if black cohosh and false unicorn root and fenugreek can ease the symptoms of menstrual pain and menopause and be a uterine tonic so women don't miscarry, all the things that, like, for me as a feminist, if thousands and thousands of women are writing thank you letters to Lydia Pinkham, something's working, right? And so it's very interesting to me that that formulation was bought up and erased because it was working. So that's a 16 billion dollar industry. The whole notion that menopause is a disease or menstruation, you can't handle it by yourself. You need these pills or those pills, you know, is just nonsense. And Native Americans have known that forever. And that's what got suppressed. So I'm not surprised, even though I'm kind of impressed that we've stumbled on something that threatens so many profit centers. But I guess the other thing I would say is that many people, the kind of marginalization of like traditional remedies, right? Or herbal remedies, herbal remedies. It's so fascinating to me because it's not science based. And I guess I, too, daughter of hippies, you know, whatever. I, too, kind of thought, oh, yeah, sure. Ginger tea, whatever, you know, that maybe these things have some mild benefit, but it's nothing compared to, you know, prescription medicine. But now I've looked both at the formulation and distribution of prescription medicine, but also I've read Rockefeller Medicine Men, which shows how the Flexner Report took over basically all medical licensing and medical education in the United States to direct it to a petroleum based pharmaceutical product system by the guy, John D. Rockefeller, who had the petroleum. Right. And then lastly, as I mentioned earlier, I've learned to read scientific peer reviewed studies and these so much does better. As I said, so much does better. So I think that's why my stuff is being censored because I actually don't just say, Hey, try garlic. You know, if you're having inflammatory conditions, here's this NIH database, which has this peer reviewed study from the journal of oncology that shows that you're actually going to do better or as well with the guava leaf tea or with the sassafras or with the mustard oil than you would do with the pharmaceutical equivalent. I mean, can I just say, and then I promise I'll stop ranting. I have a friend who has cancer. So many people have cancer now. The number of herbal products that kill cancer cells, both in vivo and in vitro, meaning both in the lab and in mammals is off the charts, off the charts effective. And so that's all I want to say. You know, like people deserve to know this is informed consent. Where do we then, massive, but we'll reduce the dot to just a little bit, where then vaccines fit into this. I saw a couple of days ago, I think it was RFK put a post up, or it might have been Ed Dowd, talking about, I think something like 18 times the level of cancer in those who are vaccinated, as opposed to those who are non-vaccinated. And this is coming again and again. We've had all different, with William Makis on recently talking about this whole area. And again it's looking for alternatives and the difficulty of finding those and being dismissed as crazy for looking at a way to solve your situation outside the norm, but that whole thing, I kind of think that's what will resonate with a lot of people, a friend of mine came down with cancer a few days ago, came out and again it's happening again and again and there does seem to be these natural remedies for it, that that haven't never been discussed. I remember a friend taking natural remedies maybe 20 years ago and I was thinking they're just crazy, just blast your body with chemo and now I'm thinking, actually there probably was a lot in that. I think people are delving deeper into this and I know a number of the the posts you put up, the videos you mentioned that actually, they are, can be used to actually combat cancer. And I think that's what will resonate with a lot of people. Yeah. And I really want to stress, so I don't get arrested because the FDA, seriously. You're not a medical doctor. You're not a medical doctor. But when I say anti-cancer, that is the conclusion that these peer-reviewed studies come to, so yeah, like I agree with you. I think there's it's a matter of urgency to get these, this evidence, I'll put it that way to people so they can decide for themselves, but what I would say here the the fundamental error in the western medical, post Rockefeller medical approach, I was in a store where they were selling these herbal treatments. And I stumbled upon them because I live in Brooklyn now part time in a Caribbean and African neighbourhood basically where they have these, and Latin American, where I have these very intact herbalist traditions, right? Like they never stopped. They remember what they're for. They use them appropriately. They never stopped. So I'm in a Caribbean owned store and I'm looking at these teas and one of them is anti-cancer. And I'm like, well, luckily I don't need that. And there was this beat as this guy looked at me like, you're an idiot. And I kind of have realized on this journey of understanding how these herbs work, that that is a stupid way to think, right? You take these treatments so that you won't need them, so that you keep your body in an optimal, immune state, so that it's efficiently dealing with getting rid of toxins or threats as you go through your day. And I guess what I mean to say there is a lot of these herbs have multiple benefits, right? They're good for your circulation. They're good for your immune system. They're anti-inflammatory. Well, that's how our systems actually work. You know, the does, it's not like just because there's like oncology over here and, you know, cardiology over here, it doesn't mean these are separate systems, right? This was put in place by Rockefeller and the Flexner report and his funding of medical schools to be more about research as it turns out for for industry than healing, but healing is all interconnected. So if you have an herb that's good for your circulation, it's anti-inflammatory, you know, it's likely to be good for other things as well. Good for your mood, good for your sleep, et cetera. So I guess I just want to confess that I was so indoctrinated that I too thought. We're just a bunch of systems because that's how the West and Western medicine teaches us to think. And we have to treat our symptoms, whereas many other traditions, including those that use herbs, understand that you're you're keeping the whole system in balance and working effectively. And that is a state of health. Well, Rockefeller Medicine Man is next on my list after Privacy is Power, which I'm in the middle of reading at the moment. So, yeah, that is definitely next. When I heard you mention one of your videos, I thought, oh, that's that's next on my list. Hey, I'm wondering, is there going to be a Cooking with Naomi Christmas book coming out? It would do well. That's so funny. People do like the cooking. I was astonished that people liked my cooking videos because I think of myself as such a bad cook. But I'm getting a little better. Absolutely, I'm going to put these into a book. I think people deserve to know. They deserve to know the science. I mean, to your point, what is chemistry? And I promise I'll stop. But the same chemistry that goes into showing a pharmaceutical intervention works, right, with all the nonsense we know go into those trials, that's the same chemistry that peer-reviewed studies show, mauby bark or guava leaves or avocado leaves also work, right? It's all chemistry. They're not different kinds of things, which is how we're propagandized. They're medicines too. Oh 100%. Well, Naomi, I always appreciate you coming on and I think every time it's a different subject. I think that's the mark of you as a journalist, actually, going where the information leads and that can always be a different direction. But I've loved those videos. So thank you so much for coming on and sharing some of your thoughts on that. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate the conversation. Take care.

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John Krebs

Private Passions

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2024 35:44

John Krebs is a zoologist who has specialised in the behaviour of birds. Although he was the son of a Nobel prize-winning chemist, ornithology was a very early passion: he hand-reared birds as a child and allowed them to fly freely around at family mealtimes. In his later research, he discovered that birds that store seeds for the winter have remarkable spatial memory and an enlarged hippocampus – the part of the brain essential for remembering. Alongside his academic career, he's taken on high-profile public roles: he was the first chairman of the Food Standards Agency, where he faced the outbreak of foot and mouth disease. He's also a cross-bench peer and was principal of Jesus College, Oxford, for a decade. His musical choices include Haydn, Schubert, Schumann and Corelli.

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Episode 157: Foodborne Antimicrobial Resistance: research and surveillance

Microbe Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2024 27:25

In this episode of Microbe Talk Clare is joined by Rick Mumford, Deputy Chief Scientific Advisor & Deputy Director of Science Evidence & Research at the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA). They chat about research and surveillance of foodborne antimicrobial resistance (AMR), delivering on the 5-year National Action Plan and look to the future of foodborne AMR. If you'd like to read Rick's paper, ‘Foodborne antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research and surveillance in the UK: priorities identified through the Food Standards Agency's AMR programme review (2023)' published in Journal of Medical Microbiology, the Society's interdisciplinary journal for medical, veterinary and dental microbiology, you can do so here. If you'd like to keep up to date with the FSA's science news, publications and research partnership opportunities you can sign up to their newsletter here.If you'd like to get involved in tackling AMR you can find out more information on our Knocking out AMR project and register your interest on our website.Music by Yrii Semchyshyn from PixabayA full transcript is available on our website.

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SLEEP CASE STUDY: Does My Child Suffer From A Dust Mite Allergy?

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2024 9:14

In this case study Prof John Warner interviews a mother whose 8-year-old child suffers from persistent allergies. Could it be dust mites? Listen in on this consultation to see how allergies are diagnosed.Prof. John Warner is a Professor of Paediatrics at Imperial College London and the University of Cape Town. His research has focused on the early life origins of asthma and related allergic and respiratory disorders. He has published over 400 papers in scientific journals on these topics. He was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Pediatric Allergy and Immunology from 1997-2010 and chairman of the paediatric section of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology for 5 years until 2010. He is also a member of the Speciality and Training Committee of the World Allergy Organisation and a past Trustee of the charity known as The Anaphylaxis Campaign. He was a member of the Advisory Committee for Novel Foods and Processes of the Food Standards Agency for 12 years until 2012 and was recognised for his work in food allergy research by the award of an OBE in 2013. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How Allergies Affect Sleep and How to Fix It

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2024 31:47

Join host Mike Finch, Dr Jill Warner and Emeritus Professor John Warner to break down the effect allergies have on sleep quality. The panel discuss the various allergens affecting sleep - from dust mites in your bed to cat dander - and how best to deal with them. Dr Jill Warner has a BSc in Immunology and Physiology and a PhD in Allergy from the University of London. She is currently an Honorary Professor in Paediatrics at The University of Cape Town and her research interests are in the foetal origins of allergic disease and environmental allergen avoidance. Dr Jill Warner has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and journal articles in the field of allergy. Prof. John Warner is a Professor of Paediatrics at Imperial College London and the University of Cape Town. His research has focused on the early life origins of asthma and related allergic and respiratory disorders. He has published over 400 papers in scientific journals on these topics. He was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Pediatric Allergy and Immunology from 1997-2010 and chairman of the paediatric section of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology for 5 years until 2010. He is also a member of the Speciality and Training Committee of the World Allergy Organisation and a past Trustee of the charity known as The Anaphylaxis Campaign. He was a member of the Advisory Committee for Novel Foods and Processes of the Food Standards Agency for 12 years until 2012 and was recognised for his work in food allergy research by the award of an OBE in 2013. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guardians of the Future

AIIM On Air

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2023 15:35

Kay Young, Information and Records Management Lead at Food Standards Agency in West Byfleet UK, discusses the upcoming AIIM24 conference. During a panel discussion at the 2023 AIIM Europe Forum, Kay called information management practitioners the “guardians of the future.” We loved this inspirational idea from Kay so much that AIIM has officially selected “Guardians of the Future” as the theme for the AIIM24 Conference. Host, Kevin Craine

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Food Standards Agency's Chief Scientific Advisor answers Lough Neagh crisis questions

Best of Nolan

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2023 80:41

A new test being developed to check how toxic fish are from Lough Neagh

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471: Sustainable food - it's all about education, education, and education

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2023 56:08

In this episode of the Food Matters Live podcast, we explore the role of education in making the food industry more sustainable. Although it is a priority for many people, studies show sustainability is often misunderstood when it comes to food. An NFS Youth Engagement Report found that the young people they spoke to mostly had a basic understanding of ‘sustainability' and some preferred not to think about the effects of their food choices. And it is not just young people. A Food Standards Agency poll found only 48% of consumers believe they know what a sustainable diet consists of. So, as concerns around the food industry's impact on climate change deepen, how is this lack of understanding affecting sustainability? What role does education have to play in creating the next generation of sustainability advocates? And how much does better understanding equal sustainable choices? Guests: Carl Edwards, Director of Education & Public Engagement, LEAF Verity Jones, Associate Professor of Education, the University of the West of England Rosalind Rathouse, Founder of the Cookery School at Little Portland Street

The Architecture of the New Decarbonised Energy System

IIEA Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2023 67:37

In this third installment of the 2023 REthink Energy series, co-organised by the IIEA and ESB, Laura Sandys, CBE, describes the architecture of the new, decarbonised energy system: distributed in nature, disruptive in character, and requiring a new way of delivering stability, resilience and cost reductions for consumers. She speaks about the digitalisation that lies at the heart of the new energy system, and what this means for system operators, generators, networks, and retailers. She also focuses on a new player in the modern energy system, which she says is its most important component: the customer. About the Speaker: Laura Sandys, CBE, is the former Chair of the UK Government's Energy Digitalisation Taskforce, and the current Chair of both the Green Alliance and the British Standards Institute Advisory Board on Net Zero. She is also on the board of the Energy Systems Catapult, Ohme Global and Highview Power. She was Chair of the Northern Ireland Expert Panel on Energy Transition and was a member of the Advisory Panel for the Government's Cost of Energy Review, and is on the Ministerial Council for Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage. She is the founder of the Food Foundation, co-founder of POWERful Women, and former Deputy Chair of the Food Standards Agency. She was previously a Member of Parliament for South Thanet, and was described by The Times as ‘one of the sanest of all MPs' and as ‘lateral-minded, original and free-thinking'.

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Ep 94 - The Definitive Guide to Putting Fresh Flowers on Cakes

The Business of Cake Making Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2023 64:15

This week we are talking about putting fresh flowers on cakes. It's a topic that we are all a bit fuzzy around the edges on, so we went straight to the experts and got our information from the Food Standards Agency! The email we got back was from @food.gov.uk - you can't get much more official than that! Who's responsibility is it if you get given a toxic flower from a florist? Who responsibility is it to put the flowers on the cake correctly? What happens if you do it wrong? How do you do it right? Also, rumour has it that there is a food safe florist tape on the market - we investigate. This is a crucial episode for anyone adding fresh flowers to their cakes!

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20/04/23 - Tree-planting delays; tax and land values; insects and waste

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2023 13:24

Forestry contractors say delays to paperwork are holding up tree planting. One forester says the waiting nearly cost him his business, and he feared he'd go bust. He also says delays in the system mean the government won't meet its ambitious tree-planting targets. We are looking into landownership all this week - and the value of arable land in England is currently at an all time high. There are many reasons and tax has its part to pay too, both inheritance tax and capital gains tax. We speak to an accountant about how tax affects the price of land. We've often talked about the future potential of insects both for feeding livestock and feeding us. At the moment insects can legally only be fed on vegetable matter, but a new research project being carried out for the Food Standards Agency is looking at the feasibility of using other types of food waste. It's being run by Fera Science Ltd, alongside the University of Surrey. Presenter: Caz Graham Producer: Rebecca Rooney

Britain's Rotten Meat Scandal

The News Agents

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2023 37:51

Ten years on from the horse meat crisis, a new scandal has engulfed almost the entire food retail sector. Huge quantities of foreign pork - sometimes tens of thousands of tonnes a week - has been passed off, fraudulently as British. One meat processor - who can't be named for legal reasons - has been accused by former employees of 'washing' hams that are visibly rotten, or mixing bad meat with fresh produce. They even allege paperwork - which would pick up infections like bacteria or E.coli - was being falsified. We talk to the Farmers Weekly journalist who broke the story Abi Kay. And we dip into the 'vagina-scented' ski slopes of Utah to visit the trial of the century - Gwyneth Paltrow v Terry Sanderson.At the time of publication, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) had not provided us with a comment after we approached them.You can watch our episodes in full at https://global-player.onelink.me/Br0x/VideosThe News Agents is a Global Player Original and a Persephonica Production.[Two hours after the episode was published, the FSA provided us with this statement:“We are continuing our criminal investigation into how a meat supplier allegedly provided products labelled as British when they were in fact sourced from other countries. This is a live investigation which means we are looking into all new lines of inquiry with the relevant local authorities, including investigating potential food hygiene breaches. This is alongside the work we are doing to investigate food fraud. Based on the investigation to date, there is no indication that food is unsafe or there is an increased risk to consumers. Criminal investigations take time and need to be done with due process and fairness. The FSA will work tirelessly on behalf of consumers to ensure that this criminal investigation is done to the highest possible standards. I do want to emphasise at a time when cost pressures and other challenges mean the risks of food fraud might be increasing, it is vital everyone involved in the food chain works to ensure that food is safe and what it says it is.” Emily Miles, Chief Executive of the Food Standards Agency]

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28/03/23 Environmental reporting; listeria outbreak; agriplastic pollution; recycling farm plastics.

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2023 13:30

DEFRA has failed to file dozens of reports on environmental legislation, which it is legally bound to do. The reports are essential because they show the public and campaign groups how effective laws are at achieving their goals. The findings are published in a report by the Office for Environmental Protection, or OEP, which was set up to monitor how well environmental regulations are working and whether government departments are implementing them properly. The Food Standards Agency has confirmed that one person has died following an outbreak of listeria. It is warning people not to eat any Baronet soft cheese products after high levels of listeria monocytogenes were found, although the death has not been specifically linked to this cheese. The Old Cheese Room which produces Baronet told us in a statement that they have now changed their testing regime, and none of their other cheeses has been affected. A new report suggests supermarkets and the government need to do more to reduce the environmental impact of agriplastics. That's things like polytunnel plastic, plastic mulch - the sheeting that's put on the fields to keep the soil warm - irrigation pipes, fertiliser bags and even the microplastics present in fertiliser pellets and some composts. The Environmental Investigation Agency report says government policy around the production and disposal of agriplastics is lacking. As we continue our week-long look at farm waste, we visit one firm in South Wales which is turning waste farm plastic into products. They collect and clean materials like wrapping for silage or feed packaging, it's then turned into pellets which can be used to make things like fence posts. Presenter = Anna Hill Producer = Rebecca Rooney

Let them eat cake

Chopper's Politics

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2023 44:14

The last of the Hope family's Christmas cake joins the guests in the Red Lion this week, and Wes Streeting is the first to take Christopher Hope up on the offer of having a slice. The Shadow Health Secretary insists that Labour wouldn't be the "fun police" to ban cakes in offices following comments this week from the chair of the Food Standards Agency, explains why he won't "wag his finger" at people who use private healthcare and proclaims that he's up for a debate about his proposed NHS reforms.Also on the podcast, Conservative MP Lee Anderson discusses levelling up, slimming down, and challenges campaigner Steve "Stop Brexit" Bray to a charity boxing battle (no, really).Plus Baroness Stowell, Tina Stowell, on why politicians need to take the creative industries more seriously.For 30 days' free access to The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/chopper |Sign up to the Chopper's Politics newsletter: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politicsnewsletter |Read Chopper's Peterborough diary: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/peterborough-diary |Listen to Ukraine: the latest: www.playpodca.st/ukraine |Email: chopperspolitics@telegraph.co.uk |See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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376: How you could help fix the global food system

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2023 28:00

"We have a growing population, lots of changes in the climate, lots of greenhouse gas emissions which are jeopardising our food production, and we are at risk of not being able to feed the world." Natalia Falagán, Lecturer in Food Science and Technology, Cranfield University, succinctly sets out some of the major issues the world is facing, and why students are queuing up to enrol on her courses. Enthusiasm for the subject is key, she says, and students "will get that enthusiasm and passion back from the lecturers". In this episode of the Career Conversations podcast series, made in partnership with Cranfield University, we delve into the detail of what the courses cover and how they can set students on the path to a rewarding career. Cranfield's Masters in Future Food Sustainability is described as taking a whole system approach to solving some of the biggest challenges facing the global food system. Natalia says usually food people look at food, energy people look at energy, and water people look at water. "That's not going to take us anywhere," she says. "We need co-operation." That co-operative approach presents itself in a number of different ways. One of the key elements of the course is the opportunity to work alongside industry. Students work with Cranfield's industry partners to ensure they get real world experience and a real sense of what is actually happening on the ground. Another key element is the group project, where students work alongside others on different Masters courses at Cranfield to solve a problem posed by an industry partner or academic. Natalia says this helps students develop crucial soft skills, as well as broadening their knowledge base. Kate Jones studied on the course in 2021-22, leaving behind her job and salary. Despite the risk, she says she felt confident taking the leap "because I was following my passion. I knew there would be an answer at the end of it". Future Food Sustainability MSc at a glance Duration: One year full-time, two or three years part-time Who it's for: Graduates who are passionate about food production and the sustainability of our food system. Potential future roles: Technical managers, sustainability managers, technical development managers, product technologists, resilience officers, supply chain/logistics analysts, commodity analysts, regulatory affairs advisers, and policy officers. Find out more and apply Cranfield also runs a Masters in Food Systems and Management, which is slightly more technical. Natalia says students often go on to work in quality and safety of food products, as well as certification. Food Systems and Management MSc at a glance Duration: One year full-time, two or three years part-time Who it's for: Science or technology graduates, or professionals already in the food industry looking to further their career. You will be passionate about improving major worldwide problems such as food security and food safety. Potential future roles: Management, food innovation, production, logistics, research or academia, retail sector, food storage. Find out more and apply Listen to the full episode to find out more about the big challenges facing the global food system, what life is like on the Cranfield University campus, and how you might go about choosing which course is right for you. Natalia Falagán, Lecturer in Food Science and Technology, Cranfield University Dr Natalia Falagan is an agricultural engineer by training and is driven by the need to reduce food waste and improve food security; while maintaining the quality and safety of fresh produce across the supply chain. Her work focuses on optimising food systems from an integrated perspective, considering the impacts on the environment to develop mitigating actions for a more sustainable and resilient supply chain. In particular, she investigates the underlying ripening and senescence mechanisms of fruit and vegetables and develops innovative strategies for postharvest management, combining both biology and technology fields. Natalia is a Member of the Royal Society of Biology, Member of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and Member of the Scientific Advisory Committees in the Food Standards Agency. In 2021, Natalia won the 'Top 50 Women in Engineering: Engineering Heroes' award and a medal awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering (Spain) in 2022 for her work towards food loss and waste reduction. Kate Jones, PhD student, Cranfield University Kate studied for an MSc in Future Food Sustainability at Cranfield University in 2021-2. After starting out as a teacher, Kate gained an MSc in Development Studies, and went on to work in education for sustainability, including at the Fairtrade Foundation (2010-2017) and Marine Stewardship Council (since 2015). She has nearly 20 years' experience managing major projects to create educational and awareness raising campaigns for adults and young people, including at Comic Relief (2005-2010), with Greenpeace (2008-10) and at Childnet (2018-21), where she co-ordinated Safer Internet Day, which in 2021 reached 51% of UK young people aged 8-17 and nearly 4 in 10 of their parents. Kate's now starting a PhD at Cranfield, focusing on the role of early warning systems in food supply chain disruption, and she is looking to use this, as well as her work experience, to help create an equitable, sustainable food system able to provide for people and planet in an uncertain future.

11/01/2023 Anniversary of horse meat scandal, Lamma machinery show

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2023 13:35

It was ten years ago this week that the Food Standards Agency of Ireland announced they had found horsemeat in beef burgers. The trail of where and how the meat became contaminated revealed a web of meat supply across Europe, which was open to fraud. Professor Chris Elliott from the School of Biological Sciences at Queen's University Belfast, was tasked by the government to lead an inquiry, and as a result, a national Food Crime Unit was set up. Major retailers also signed up to a system for checking food safety, which still continues today. He believes that the science is there to stop food fraud, but says a lack of border checks since Brexit mean the UK's vulnerable to imports of food that aren't safe. Chief executive of the Food Standards Agency Emily Miles says trading standards and the FSA labs need more resources to carry out more checks. Nearly 600 exhibitors are showcasing everything from tractors to combines and farming robots at LAMMA in Birmingham. All week we're focusing on machinery and the problems it can solve for farmers, from seed drills which help restore pasture, by emulating the movement of sheep's feet, to machines you can mount on a quad bike to remove rocks before planting a field. Presenter = Anna Hill Producer = Rebecca Rooney

10/12/22 Farming Today This Week; abattoirs and the challenges the sector faces.

Behind The Service: A UNISON Insight into Local Government

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2022 25:06

All week on Farming Today we've been looking at the state of the UK's abattoirs - from animal welfare to the challenges of finding staff. There are about 245 abattoirs in the UK, slaughtering millions of animals. Government figures for October this year show 173,000 cattle, 1.1 million sheep and 926, 000 pigs. There used to be many more abattoirs, but tighter regulations and economies of scale have seen consolidation. The future of small abattoirs has been a concern for many farmers for a number of years now. Farming Minister Mark Spencer has said he is actively looking at supporting smaller abattoirs, to keep them running. But it might not be in time to save some. We speak to a campaigner who's fighting to save the Tottingworth abattoir in Heathfield in East Sussex which is earmarked for closure in January. The Food Standards Agency says it's doing all it can to support small abattoirs by cutting red tape and reducing costs, but the CEO Emily Miles said they can't have a separate regulatory system for small abattoirs, even though they are only selling meat locally, because some by-products do end up in produce destined for export, and would need to comply with those standards. We visit a plant where Scottish salmon is slaughtered and processed, and speak to the Humane Slaughter Association about whether the stunning methods used in the slaughter of wild salmon, could be applied to fish caught at sea.

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Welcome to The UNISON Local Government Podcast with Paul Bell & Ruth Levin

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2022 2:23

Hello and welcome to The UNISON Local Government Podcast, hosted by Paul Bell and Ruth Levin. We both work in UNISON's Local Government, Police and Justice section. Paul also works closely with members who work for the Food Standards Agency and Ruth is involved in UNISON's pay campaigns for local government workers, highlighting the need for more and better funding for local services and promoting equality in the workplace. We're really excited to have a new way to get our message out and engage with our members and beyond. This show is for members to discover and learn more about the work they are all doing together on a daily basis, hear from those at the forefront of making change and to inspire you to get involved and help us make a difference. We'll be releasing a new episode every fortnight covering topics such as privatisation, food regulation, workers rights and campaigning for care workers, to name a few. We hope that you'll find some inspiration to campaign for better work wherever you are and you can expect digestible, informative episodes, featuring a line up of guests sharing their experiences and a round up of how your actions can help them. Remember to follow, share, join! Follow the podcast, share it with your friends and family, and join UNISON if you work in the public sector. The more people we reach the greater impact we can have.

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352: Food survey - biggest consumer concerns revealed

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2022 33:19

What is the state of the relationship between consumers and the food industry? What do consumers think about the food they eat? How safe do they consider the food they buy to be? And what can the food industry learn from tracking consumer behaviour? In the UK, many of those questions can be answered by looking at the results of the Food Standards Agency's flagship Food and You 2 Survey. We all have individual concerns and behaviours around food, but what do these individual preferences add up to when scaled to the national level? And how can the food industry use that information? According to the survey, the biggest consumer concerns are food waste, the amount of sugar in food, and animal welfare. More than 50% of respondents reported feeling worried about these issues. The environment has shown itself to be a key issue too, with one third of people who responded to the survey saying they have intentionally bought food which has a low environmental impact. Consumer confidence appears high, with 92% saying they believe food bought in Britain is safe to eat. Listen to the full episode to find out more about the survey's results, how the data is being used in the food industry and beyond, and how the cost of living crisis is already having an impact on people's behaviour around food. Michelle Patel, Food Standards Agency Michelle Patel is the Deputy Director of Analysis and Insight within the Science team at the Food Standards Agency. With nearly twenty years in Government and a background in communications she remains an endlessly curious scholar of public attitudes and behaviours. She leads a fine team of over 50 analysts and has access to leading experts and a wide range of research tools to understand how and why people do what they do, and what the future holds when it comes to food.

Inside food safety scares

The Food Chain

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2022 29:40

Food contamination is a serious public health problem around the world. The World Health Organisation estimates that 600 million – almost 1 in 10 people in the world – fall ill after eating contaminated food and 420,000 die every year. In this episode, Ruth Alexander speaks to some of the people whose lives have been shaped by serious food safety breaches and how they are working to ensure food safety and strengthen our food systems. She speaks to US food policy campaigner, Darin Detwiler, whose son Riley died following an E. coli outbreak in 1993, food safety consultant Lone Jespersen, and Tina Potter, head of incidents at the Food Standards Agency for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk (Picture: Scientist inspecting meat sample in laboratory. Credit: Getty/BBC) Producer: Elisabeth Mahy

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31/08/22 Badger TB Vaccination; Small Abattoir shuts, Right to Roam

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2022 13:28

All this week we are taking a look at how Bovine Tuberculosis is affecting farm businesses. It is believed TB can spread from badger to cattle, and one way to prevent that from happening is to vaccinate badgers against TB (we will talk about vaccinating cattle later this week). Earlier this year the Government introduced a new way to get more people helping with vaccinating the badgers - and our reporter Bob Walker has been to meet one group doing it in Cheshire. A small abattoir in the Peak District is closing today after 100 years of business. Its owner says bureaucracy is preventing smaller operators from operating, as well as staff shortages. Figures from the Food Standards Agency suggest small abattoirs are closing at a rate of 10% a year. And later this year, Caroline Lucas the Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion will be putting forward a Right to Roam Bill, she tells us how she thinks it could work. Presented by Anna Hill Produced in Bristol by Natalie Donovan

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304: Are consumers ready for gene-edited crops?

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2022 44:01

For decades, there has been a fiery debate around Genetic Modification. It's seen by many as a solution to some of the world's biggest food problems, but by others as a reckless scientific gamble, endangering human health and the environment. Those of us with memories of the 1990s and 2000s will remember GM trial crops in East Anglia being trashed by protesters, with farmers defending them using tractors as battering rams. Genetically modified crops are effectively banned across Europe and the same applies to gene edited crops. And it's gene editing we're interested in because the UK Government is trying to pass a new law which could lead to these crops being grown commercially in England. Researchers hope gene editing might help solve global food and health problems, and be more palatable to the public than GM. So, will it be a game changer? To discuss its potential, we are joined by Professor Cathie Martin from the John Innes Centre, where she is leading a research project creating tomatoes which boost the body's vitamin D. And former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Food Standards Agency, Professor Guy Poppy. Cathie Martin, group leader at the John Innes Centre and Professor at the University of East Anglia Cathie researches the relationship between diet and health and how crops can be fortified to improve diets and address the global challenge of escalating chronic disease. This work has involved linking leading clinical and epidemiological researchers with plant breeders and metabolic engineers to develop scientific understanding of how diet can help to maintain health, promote healthy ageing and reduce the risk of chronic disease. Cathie has recently initiated collaborative research in China to research on Chinese Medicinal Plants, particularly those producing anti-cancer metabolites used for complementary therapies. Cathie was Editor-in-Chief of The Plant Cell (2008-2014) and is now an Associate Editor for Molecular Horticulture. She is a member of EMBO, AAAS, a Fellow of the Royal Society, in 2014 she was awarded an MBE for services to Plant Biotechnology, in 2019 she was elected Janniki Ammal Chair of the Indian Academy of Sciences for outstanding women in science and in 2022 she will receive the Rank Prize for outstanding contributions to research on nutrition. Professor Guy Poppy, former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Food Standards Agency, Professor Guy Poppy served as the FSA's Chief Scientific Adviser from 2014 to 2020. His research on food systems and food security at the University of Southampton, is interdisciplinary and he has twice served as Associate Vice President for Interdisciplinary research. He was appointed Companion of the Order of Bath (CB) in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2021 and made a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2022. Professor Poppy has significant research experience in food systems and food security and has advised governments around the world on these issues. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers including a number of highly cited articles on risk assessment, risk analysis and risk communication. He was a member of the Research Excellence Framework (REF2014 and REF2021) panel assessing the quality of agriculture, food and veterinary science in the UK. A graduate of Imperial College and Oxford University, Professor Poppy previously worked at Rothamsted Research, becoming Principal Scientific Officer. He left in 2001 to join the University of Southampton. As the FSA's Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Poppy provided expert scientific advice to the UK government and played a critical role in helping to understand how scientific developments will shape the work of the FSA as well as the strategic implications of any possible changes. His series of CSA reports have reached a very wide audience and have had impact on issues ranging from AMR to Big data and Whole Genome Sequencing through to the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS). He has focused on connecting science to those using it and has pushed for scientists to be intelligent providers to intelligent customers of science within the FSA and beyond. After completing his term of six years at the FSA, Professor Poppy became the Programme Director for the SPF Transforming the UK Food systems programme. This £47.5 million interdisciplinary research programme is supported by UKRI's Strategic Priorities Fund (SPF) and brings together researchers from almost 40 research organisations and over 200 private and public sector organisations including almost 20 Government Departments/Agencies.

Dog food, Diet fizzy drinks, Mouthwash

Sliced Bread

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2022 25:58

Is expensive dog food better for your pooch than the cheap stuff? Are diet fizzy drinks actually ‘bad' for you? And should we all add mouthwash to our bathroom routine? With Greg up at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this week we're doing something a little different - investigating THREE of the wonder-products you've sent us on WhatsApp in a triple slice of quick investigations. First up, listener Ali in Bristol wants to know whether the expensive dog food she bought is really better for her new pooch than the cheaper stuff. Greg speaks to one of the UK's most senior vets to find out the differences between wet and dry dog food and whether the latest doggy diet trends of vegan and raw food diets are a good idea for our canine companions. Second is Sophie who loves Diet Coke but her friends and family say it's bad for her. Greg finds out about the latest evidence from the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK regulator, the Food Standards Agency. Finally, listener Helen wants to know - what's the point of mouthwash? And in finding out, Greg's bathroom routine is turned on its head! Keep your suggestions coming for wonder-products you'd like us to investigate. Send them over on email to sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk or as a voice note to our WhatsApp number: 07543 306807. PRESENTER: Greg Foot PRODUCER: Simon Hoban

Dog food, Diet fizzy drinks, Mouthwash

Sliced Bread

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2022 25:58

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TPXimpact Holdings PLC: An incredibly cash generative business blending autonomy with responsibility

Master Investors

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2022 15:51

Neal Gandhi founded TPXimpact Holdings (AIM: TPX) with a mission to reduce, and eventually eradicate the bureaucracy that paralyses government programmes at local and central level. The company is a technology-enabled services company focused on digital transformation which in Gandhi's words: “Empower our teams at the edge to get the job done without bureaucracy.” TPX does that, he says, by pulling together multi-disciplinary teams, to create solutions that work and deliver against the goal for companies. He adds it's about sharing findings, ensuring great value for taxpayers with the ultimate goal of benefiting society. The client list is impressive and includes DEFRA, the Food Standards Agency and the NHS. TPX counts 50 of the largest 160 local authorities as its clients, and commercial customers include Legal & General and HSBC. While society benefits, Gandhi wants to make sure shareholders do too. He says the business is incredibly cash generative, and on a run rate basis his and the team's goal is to deliver £200 million revenue by March 2025.

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Science Advice & Government: BSE

CSaP: The Science & Policy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2022 38:05

In the fourth episode of our series on science advice and government, we look back a few decades at what lessons were learnt following the BSE outbreak (Mad Cow Disease) in the 1980s and 1990s. Plus how it led to the establishment of the Food Standards Agency (FSA). Host Dr Rob Doubleday is joined by Dame Julia Unwin, who was appointed Deputy Chair of the FSA in 2003. Dame Julia's role was to co-lead the agency and develop its relationship with the government and most importantly, the public. In today's episode, Rob is also joined by Erik Millstone, a Professor at the University of Sussex, who's research focuses on the use of science and evidence in the governance of food safety and risk. -- Season 5 is produced in partnership with the research project Expertise Under Pressure, Centre for the Humanities and Social Change at the University of Cambridge. CSaP: The Science & Policy Podcast is hosted by CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday, and is edited and produced by CSaP Communications Coordinator Jessica Foster. Research for this series is supported by CSaP Policy Researcher Nick Cosstick. Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm. Learn how to start a podcast here. -- Resources relevant to this episode: About the Food Standards Agency and their mission: https://bit.ly/FSAmission The Food Standards Agency: A Force for Change (White Paper proposing the Food Standards Agency). BSE: Risk, Science, and Governance by Patrick van Zwanenberg and Erik Millstone -- Sign up to our CSaP newsletter by clicking here.

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220: Career Conversations: 'The food sector needs people'

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2022 19:28

"I was worried at the time. I didn't know what I wanted to do." Kate Halliwell was in her twenties and, despite studying biochemistry at Oxford, she wasn't sure which career path to follow. So she upped sticks and went travelling for two years. "I refer to it as my quarter-life crisis," she tells Elisa Roche in this episode of the Career Conversations series. It wasn't long before Kate was back in academia, gaining a Masters in nutrition, which led to civil servant roles and eventually, to joining the Food and Drink Federation (FDF). In this episode, Kate talks about National Apprenticeship Week, something the FDF is keenly involved in. "The food sector as a whole needs new people to join," Kate says, adding that there's work to be done to educate people about the diversity of roles on offer. She also points out that many of the jobs that exist are high-skilled as food manufacturing is "becoming effectively high technology". Listen on to find out all about what the FDF does, learn more about Kate's role, and be inspired to keep plugging away until you find the career that's right for you. Kate Halliwell, Chief Scientific Officer, Food and Drink Federation Kate is accountable for the FDF's food safety, food law and labelling, and diet and health policy briefs. The role involves extensive liaison with food and drink manufacturing companies to develop cross-industry policy positions and responding to scientific consultations. Previously Kate led the FDF's diet and health policy work, and before that worked for the Department of Health and the Food Standards Agency on a range of nutrition and legislation policies. Kate is a member of the Institute of Food Science and Technology and is a registered nutritionist.

Lady Chanelle McCoy: 'Banks treat us like we're illegal'

Small Business Snippets

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2021 23:27

In this episode, Anna Jordan meets Lady Chanelle McCoy – entrepreneur and former Dragon on Dragon's Den Ireland. We talk about her time on the show and the barriers to growth for the CBD industry. You can also visit smallbusiness.co.uk for more podcasts featuring Dragon's from the UK version of Dragon's Den. Remember to like us on Facebook @SmallBusinessExperts and follow us on Twitter @smallbusinessuk, all lower case. Don't forget to check out the video version of this episode and subscribe over on our YouTube channel! Would you prefer to read Chanelle McCoy's podcast interview instead? Hello and welcome to Small Business Snippets, the podcast from SmallBusiness.co.uk. I'm your host, Anna Jordan. Today we have Lady Chanelle McCoy, entrepreneur and former Dragon on Dragon's Den Ireland. Born in Galway, she co-founded Chanelle Medical, part of Chanelle Pharma, which was founded by her father. In 2015, Lady McCoy and business partner Caroline Glynn set up Chanelle McCoy Health, an R&D led pharmaceutical company. From that came cannabidiol (CBD) range, Pureis CBD. She was recently ranked no 23 in the ‘50 incredible people shaping modern Ireland'. She was awarded the All-Ireland Business Champion Award 2018 for her outstanding achievements in business leadership. We'll be talking about her time on Dragon's Den Ireland and the barriers to growth facing the CBD industry. Anna: Hi, Chanelle, how are you doing? Chanelle: Good. Anna, how are you? Thank you so much for having me. I'm very excited about our chat. Anna:Oh, of course, of course. So, listeners and viewers might not recognise you straight away. But they might have seen you before on the Irish version of Dragon's Den. Chanelle: Yeah, that's right. I'm Irish, home grown – from the west of Ireland. I've spent over 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry. I'm very lucky to get the opportunity to do Dragon's Den, the Irish version. Dragon's Den is owned by Sony Music, and they franchise that out to 27 countries around the world. When I did Dragon's Den, when I started the first year, Ireland was the first country to have three female dragons and two male dragons. It was a fantastic experience to do it. I definitely made a few investments. Yeah, so it was great. Smashing. So, based on your time in there, what would you say are the biggest differences between the Irish version and the UK version? I've only seen a few clips of the Irish version, but for want of a better word, it seems nicer – less cut-throat, I suppose. Chanelle: I mean, maybe that's more of a cultural thing as us Irish are quite warm and friendly, maybe. But no, I think that the fact that Sony Music are the owners, and it's a franchise, that the setting was very much the same, was very like this, the way we sit, and the seats and, and the whole kind of procedure of it as well. It is your own money that you're investing, that you have to bring that to the table, even though the cash sitting beside you is actually not real. We would record about seven pitches in a day. So you literally would have one after another, some of the pitches would go on for about an hour and a half, even though you only see maybe 15-20 minutes on the TV when it's edited down. The reality is you get no prior warning or visibility of the pitch that's coming into the den. So you're in between all this, like when the seven pitches are going on, in between that you leave the room, you go back backstage kind of thing. You wait until the room is set up, you come back onto your chair, the product is hidden, you've got no phone, you can't Google anything. And it's literally when that entrepreneur walks out of the lift that you get to know about the products. So, that's why the pitches would go on for more like an hour and a half, because this is your money you're investing, and you have to make a decision right there and then, whether you're going to invest or not. I mean, obviously maybe some people feel Ireland, the Irish was a bit tamer than England, but there were certainly a few of the pitches that we gave them a hard time with! The fact that it's every pitch is brand new to you. Why do you think that is? Is it more of like a production thing and gets an authentic reaction from you? Chanelle: I think it's twofold. I think that the entrepreneur coming in there pitching, knows that they've got this really short window to sell their story and their business to you. Those entrepreneurs coming in, most of them really need that investment to survive, and if they don't get it, their company will close, they're running out of cash, so there's from their side of the fence, they know that we have had no prior knowledge of their of their company. So they've got to pitch really well, from our side as well. That's the whole thrill of Dragon's Den is that it's instinctive, you have to make a decision right there and then, so that builds to the excitement I'm kind of the drama of it or the appeal of it. Absolutely. I'd like to talk a bit more about your time in the pharmaceutical industry, because it's certainly been a year for pharmaceuticals, for CBD and for the wellness industry as well. And there's so much to unpick with that. Starting off with CBD, the market has grown exponentially, it absolutely exploded, and it's becoming more popular with consumers. But there are still barriers to growth. Say for example, search engines, in my understanding, are reluctant to rank products with CBD and anything related. Tell us more about the barriers to growth in that particular market. Chanelle: If we look at where we've come in the last six years. Today, the CBD food supplement market in the UK is valued at £450m. Now to put that into context, what does that mean – is that big, is that small? If you look at vitamin C in the UK today, that's £115m. Vitamin D today is £145m so CBD today and we have eight million people that take CBD today in the UK. CBD today at £450m totally eclipses vitamin C and vitamin D together. But the exciting thing is that £450m figure will grow to £1bn in the next three years. We are delighted that our product, it's called Pureis CBD, and we're on the market over a year now in the UK and we're in over 1000 retailers. We're the first CBD food supplement company to command the UK market that's backed by clinical studies. And we invested over a number of years, we invested over £1.5m in extensive safety clinical studies, because that is the requirement by the UK Food Standards Agency, the European Food Safety Authority, because they say CBD is a new molecule in your body. We didn't take it prior to 1997, they want all these safety studies done. So, we just embarked on, while adhering to the legislation. We are the first CBD food supplement company in the world to use FDA-registered raw material. And that might not mean a lot to the consumer walking in off the street, but it means a lot to the pharmacists and the doctors. Because the FDA are the strictest food and medicine sheriffs in the world. It was great that we worked with our raw material supplier, and we were able to get that certification on our raw material. What's happened in the CBD industry this week [week commencing April 19, 2021], which has been incredibly interesting to watch it evolve. The Food Standards Agency, which are basically the governing body that look after the safety of food supplements, they set a deadline for the CBD industry this week that any CBD food supplements that wants to stay on the market has got to submit a dossier into the Food Standards Agency with a full suite of clinical safety studies. And if you do that, you are allowed to remain on the market. If you don't do that, you will be pulled off the market. And the Food Standards Agency this week published a list of the companies that are allowed remain on the market. There are only three brands on that list, and we are the first brand on that list. We are officially in full assessment with the Food Standards Agency, we're on that list, which is very exciting. Anna: How many were there to begin with? Chanelle: About 800. What will happen, as the weeks go on, there will be more companies added to that list. But if you're not on the list by June, you're off the market. But this is a very positive move. The UK Government trying to bring what is an unregulated CBD market into a regulated market, because this is all about consumer safety at the end of the day. And the issue with CBD is there are a lot of rogue traders and cowboys out there. That was validated by a paper that was published last year where a number of professors got together, they tested over 30 products that are on the market. The alarming results of that paper is that 55 per cent of products on the market today have illegal levels of THC. And THC is a psychoactive addictive part of the cannabis plant that you don't want in a food supplement. It's fine in the medicine space when it's released by a doctor. And also, of those products, 34 per cent of them have lower levels of CBD than advertised on the label. There's a huge issue with misleading the consumer and this is why the legislation has come in, because they want to clean up the market. So what you'll see over the next few months is you will see a lot of CBD brands will be pulled off the market, the market will consolidate and what will be left on the market will be very safe products that are backed by clinical studies. This will help demystify CBD and give us the really good reputation that it should have because it is not psychoactive, you do not get a high from CBD. CBD is not addictive. It's just got all the good healing properties. So that's in terms of a kind the market and where we are and how it's going to grow and with the legislation. What is really hampering the CBD industry at the moment and is really going to affect the potential growth and job opportunities in the UK, is we still have banks, financial services and payment gateways that will not trade with CBD companies. They treat us like we're in the porn industry, they treat us like we're illegal, so we can't open a bank account in the UK. We're dealing with lots of payment providers like Stripe, the two Irish boys, we tell them all about our clinical studies, we are fully ethical, we are now on the approved Government list. Computer says no, they will not support our business. You then go to the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and you say well, we want to do some digital advertising and we want to run social media campaigns with our products. We have clinical studies here, we are very ethical. Again, computer says no, we don't deal with CBD companies. I think these types of institutions and these companies really need to wake up. They need to take their blinkers off and they need to think, ‘Okay, let's assess each CBD company as they approach us. Why don't we trade with those companies that are on the Food Standard Agency ‘Publish' list, because we know that they are ethical, they're safe. They've done their studies.' The London Stock Exchange has floated three companies recently, three CBD companies, one of them is the one that David Beckham's involved in. If the LSE is engaging and trading with CBD companies, well why won't other companies? What is the critical issue now is the Home Office. Okay, so the Home Office in the UK is the Government arm that is responsible for policing narcotics and drugs here – and what's been imported. Our raw material is manufactured in the United States. As I said, it's FDA registered, so it's really high quality. We are synthetically derived, so we are not taken from the plant. We have mimicked the DNA the plant, so it is not possible to have any THC in our products because we are synthetic. And the Home Office have said to us – now, this is not us, this is with every CBD company: No, you are not allowed to import your raw material into the UK. And because we bring our raw material into the UK, and then we get our products manufactured, our finished product manufactured in the UK. They say no, because your product might have THC. So we went to four labs that the Home Office use, these are independent Government approved laboratories, we got our raw material tested, we gave them the certificates, plus all our data from the FDA and said, ‘We don't have THC. We're synthetic, it's not possible.' And again, they're like, ‘Computer says no, sorry.' What's going to happen now is you're going to see a lot of people like us leaving the UK. We get our product manufactured in the UK, we had planned with the manufacturing company we work with, that they were going to create 70 more jobs between now and the end of the year, because now we are launching a lot of different markets outside Europe and Ukraine and Russia and China. And we need lots of product manufactured. Those 70 jobs now will not be created in the UK because we've got to go to Germany and Ireland to set up, to find a new manufacturing partner and set up our production there. That's happening now, right through the CBD industry, where there will be huge job losses. They are totally suffocating the growth of what will be a huge market – not just for food supplements, but for the pharmaceutical industry as well. So, you spoke a bit earlier about the difficulties and the resistance to the CBD market, especially in the UK. Of course, we all know that, especially since the transition period ended Brexit has caused some troubles as well, it'll be great to hear from somebody who is a major trading partner of the UK. So as a business based in Ireland, how has your trading relationship with the UK been affected by Brexit? Chanelle: I mean, it's very difficult now. And we are trading both ways, we are registered as an Irish company. And we are now registered as an English company. We get our manufacturing done in the UK of our finished product. But now, because of Brexit, we will look to have a second manufacturing site as well set up. Because when we hopefully get our European license receipt for our products, for Pureis, we will have a lot of challenges having the product manufactured in the UK, and then shipping it to the likes of Germany and France, because customs, tariffs, duty, is crippling. When we contact that customs and it's like, ‘Well look, you can get your customer to pay it, and then your customer in Germany can claim it back.' It is it is annoying for a customer to have to do that. And if they have an alternative to trade with somebody that's in a European country over you, they will do that, because they don't have that administration hassle when they're dealing with somebody else. It is very unfortunate that there is not a better trade deal between the UK and Europe. Also then bringing product in from Ireland into the UK, is very difficult. So what it has forced companies like myself to do is that when you're trading in Europe, you need to have a base in Europe. You need to move your manufacturing from the UK and position it in Europe, that is really the only way. When you're trading in the UK, what you need to do is set up a manufacturing facility in the UK to service your UK customers. That is a pity, because it has incurred a lot of costs for us we're trying to set up work with new partners, qualify them as a manufacturer for our product in Europe and also what it does is we now, for our European customers, we are now taking all our production out of the UK and basing it in Europe. The UK have lost out a lot. But no matter what way you look at it, upside down, inside out, that is really the only way because at the end of the day, this is about servicing your customer. It's about being easy to deal with in the eyes of your customer. And it's about not incurring costs in terms of extra customs and duty and taxes and all of that. So that's really the way we've navigated it, but I think if the UK had the chance again to vote to leave Europe, I certainly don't think they would. I've spoken to so many UK entrepreneurs, Irish entrepreneurs and our leaders, and they tell you that. Anna: So it wouldn't be the case where the UK is a significant enough market where the costs would be worth it on balance. Chanelle: I mean, what it just means now is that, if you want to trade with the UK, you want to supply product into the UK, you're better off to source it within the UK. And the UK might think, well, that's a good thing, because we're bringing more employment and more opportunity into the UK, because we're forcing people to set up to partner with manufacturers in the UK. But actually, your loss is much bigger, because Europe is much bigger geographically. And what you're missing out on, is companies like me, who want to service 28 countries in Europe, from a manufacturing facility in the UK, and we can't do it. We've spoken a little bit about your husband, AP McCoy. I noticed that in quite a lot of the bios and the introductions I read about yourself, that he's mentioned within that bio and is quite a significant part of it. And I wondered how that affects you. As you're a self-named brand, do you feel that your husband's presence and career kind of helps boost it? Or do you feel that you can't exist in your own right? Chanelle: I'm incredibly proud of AP and to go through his career, and to be the most successful winning jockey, and to be champion jockey for 20 years, and winning the BBC Sports Personality of the Year and be knighted by the Queen – it's a great legacy. It's a great achievement within what he has done. And he's been incredibly impactful to me. As I went along in my career, I was lucky – I met him when I was 19. I'm 44 now. We've done this journey together, where I've worked for my family business, while he was scaling the heights in his career. I suppose it was a great outlet for me, because, I had to work really hard, it wasn't like that I kind of floated through my job and I dipped out to go racing every week, it wasn't that case. I was very mindful of the fact that during that period, in our 20s and early 30s, that it was all about AP. Every time I went to the races, or you're out to dinner with people, everybody wants to talk about him. And that's okay, because it's incredibly dangerous what he does, it's very interesting when you get under the hood of like, the diet and the people he rides for, and all of that. I was very happy to go along, for like, 15-20 years, where people would always ask me about him. But I think, what was really where I benefited hugely, and it goes back to the environment you live in, you work in. His dedication, his will to win, his absolute resilience, definitely rubbed off on me and shaped my culture, shaped my values. He motivated me. That's why in the workplace, it's so important, as a leader, as a manager, that you are creating this environment, where you are inspiring, you're positive, you're giving people that self-belief because your behaviour as a leader totally rubs off on the people around you, and will become their behaviour – they will emulate that. He was a fantastic source of inspiration for me, because his behaviour kind of became my behaviour in the end. It was only really, when he stopped riding in 2015 and I started to do Dragon's Den, that people used to say to me, ‘You're on Dragon's Den, Chanelle? I mean, I didn't even know you had a job. I've seen you for years at the races.' And I'm like, ‘Yeah, yeah. I'm in pharmaceuticals, have been in here for 15 years.' So suddenly people started to say to me, ‘Oh, you're not just AP's wife then?' ‘No, no – I'm a human in my own right.' As AP said to me, ‘Chanelle, it's your time to shine'. I've been in his shadow, very happily in his shadow and supporting him, so he's incredibly supportive when I did Dragon's Den, and now with my own business, and trailblazing in the CBD industry, because we're the first with our clinical studies. We're the first to get on this list, the Government list that was published this week. He's very supportive and very proud. He's been a massive help to me over the years and has definitely been the driving force. Anna: Well, that seems like a good place to wrap up. Thank you ever so much for coming on the podcast, Chanelle – it's been wonderful. Chanelle: Brilliant. Thanks for having me, Anna. It was really enjoyable. You can find out more about Lady Chanelle McCoy at chanellemccoyhealth.com. You can also visit smallbusiness.co.uk for more podcasts featuring Dragons from the UK version of Dragon's Den. Remember to like us on Facebook @SmallBusinessExperts, follow us on Twitter @smallbusinessuk (all lowercase) and subscribe to our YouTube channel, linked in the description. Until next time, thank you for listening.

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Pure umami: should we learn to love MSG?

Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil Thought Leadership Interviews

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2021 28:48

Monosodium Glutamate is probably one of the most contentious ingredients in modern food. Increasingly there have been calls to tackle the stigma attached to it especially as this has been linked to Chinese restaurants and people with East Asian heritage. In this programme Leyla Kazim aims to demystify MSG. She looks into where it came from, what it is and how it became so demonised. Professor Lisa Methven from the University of Reading explains the taste science behind how and why we like MSG. David Gott from the Food Standards Agency clarifies what the science says around the health issues associated with it. Historian of Science Dr Sarah Tracy tells Leyla about the complicated history of MSG. MiMi Aye and Huong Black from the MSG Pod talk about their experiences with MSG and coach Leyla on how to use it in food. Alison Cheung and Marina Lai’s families both own restaurants in London’s Chinatown, Plum Valley and Lotus Garden. They talk about how they want to confront the decades long stigma Presented by Leyla Kazim Produced by Sam Grist in Bristol

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Vernon Sankey, Author, Leadership Coach, Director Board Of Directors, Atos SE

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2021 85:18

Vernon Sankey is an author, coach, leader, independent director and chairman and the current Chairman of the Audit Committee, Atos SE. Vernon Sankey has over 30 years of Board Of Directors experience in US, UK and EU, in FMCG (former CEO Reckitt, Chairman Firmenich) IT, Insurance (Board Director, chair remuneration com, Zurich Insurance), publishing (Board Director, chair audit Pearson plc) family and privately owned businesses (Cofra SA) and other smaller private and public businesses and start-ups. Vernon Sankey Interview Questions 1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education... beginning history?2. From your Career highlights how do you deal with failure?3. How do you deal with multiple cultures in the corporations you have been managing?4. How do you see the research and philosophical teachings of your books and the sense of real time and technology obsessions we have now?5. “Sankey and Lockwood (in the last book The Way: Finding Peace in Turbulent Times) … unpack our deep-rooted everyday dilemmas … and point to concrete patterns of thought and action that we can take … Highly recommended!” —Peter Dahlgren, Professor Emeritus, Sweden. How to cope with patterns of thought and action within the dilemmas of everyday life?6. With Covid-19, our present challenges: what ways do you envision to redesign our society with wisdom, psychology, philosophy, technology and social impact?Vernon Sankey BiographyBritish born, Vernon Sankey graduated from Oriel College, Oxford University and received his Masters of Arts from the University of Oxford in 1971. He started his professional career in Reckitt and Colman plc in 1971, and became Chief Executive Officer in Denmark, France, the USA and in Great Britain in 1992. A role he performed until 1999.After his experience at Reckitt and Colman plc, he has also held several non-executive positions as Chairman or Board member. He held positions as Chairman of Thomson Travel Group plc in 2000, Gala Group plc (2000 - 2003), deputy Chairman of Beltpacker plc (2000 - 2005), Non-Executive Director of Pearson plc (1993 - 2006), Chairman of Photo-Me International plc (2000 - 2007) , non-executive Director of Zurich Insurance AG (1998 - 2012) and Chairman of its Remuneration Committee) He was a founder board member of the UK's Food Standards Agency (2000 - 2005) and a Non- Executive Director of Cofra Holding AG (2001 - 2007)In 2000 Sankey set up an executive coaching company called REDCO Ltd of which he was Chairman. He has extensive experience in advising and coaching companies and executives on personal and corporate change and lectures on Leadership and Transformation Management. In 2001, Sankey became the Governor of Harrow School and a Trustee (Royal Charter) of the John Lyon Charity, a role he performed until 2016.Vernon Sankey is currently the Chairman of the Audit Committee, Atos SE, a role he has performed since 2005 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.Besides his role as business executive, Vernon has lectured extensively on leadership, personal change and development and corporate and individual transformation in the UK and the US, at international conferences around the world and in schools and universities. About Dinis Guarda profile and Channelshttps://www.openbusinesscouncil.orghttps://www.dinisguarda.com/https://www.intelligenthq.comhttps://www.hedgethink.com/https://www.citiesabc.com/https://twitter.com/citiesabc__Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation

Data Bites #15: Getting things done with data in government

Institute for Government

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2021 81:35

We were excited to announce another online-only Data Bites event. Better use of data is key to more effective government. Across government, teams are doing fascinating work with data. But those projects don’t get the attention they deserve. At this month's event, the 15th in our series, the speakers presented their data projects in an exciting, quickfire format. Each speaker has eight minutes, followed by eight minutes of questions from the audience. Our speakers were: Theo Blackwell, Chief Digital Officer for London, and Eddie Copeland, Director, London Office of Technology and Innovation (LOTI), on data sharing in London. Rachel Forty, Lead Data Scientist at the Food Standards Agency, on user focused tool design Chris Barnes, Lead Data Governance Officer at Highways England, on valuing Highways England’s data Jon Harrison, Senior Data Scientist, Department for Work and Pensions, on using automated A/B testing to inform decision making The event was chaired by Gavin Freeguard, Programme Director and Head of Data and Transparency at the Institute for Government.

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02/03/21: Trade and Agriculture Commission report, genetic editing burnt toast, plans for agricultural shows

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2021 13:41

The Trade and Agriculture Commission (in it's current form) publishes its final report today. The Commission was set up in 2020, after public demand to uphold UK food standards and prevent the import of goods that could undermine British produce. We hear from the outgoing chair, Tim Smith, on the challenges of striking new trade deals whilst protecting British food standards - plus the new role of the 'updated' TAC. Many of us like fried snacks, roast potatoes and coffee, but all can contain acrylamide when they are over-cooked or burnt. Acrylamide is recognised as a potential cancer-causing compound by the Food Standards Agency, which advises consumers to cut levels as much as possible. But could gene edited wheat help? Last year, most agricultural shows were online, and many looked forward to returning in 2021. But organising large events has become complicated. Some shows have decided to postpone again until next year, but others are planning to go ahead - in some form. We hear from the Association of Show and Agricultural Organisations. Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

The Hoban Minute – 136 | EIHA's Lorenza Romanese | An Update on European Industrial Hemp Policy

The Hoban Minute

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 22:47

Eric sits down with the Managing Director of the European Industrial Hemp Association, Lorenza Romanese, to discuss Europe's alignment with the U.S. on the allowable percentage of THC in hemp, the designation of CBD as a Novel Food in the E.U., and why cannabinoid manufactures need to move quickly to meet the Food Standards Agency deadline for product applications. Hoban Law Group created The Hoban Minute to get closer to our network, highlight the many voices that make up this multifaceted global industry and provide a broader perspective on cannabis, hemp, and marijuana international markets. Contact Hoban Law Group for all your cannabusiness legal needs.

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95: Food Standards Agency - UK risk analysis and authorisation of substances in food and feed - what businesses need to know for January 2021

CSaP: The Science & Policy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2020 20:31

In this episode of the Table Talk Podcast we’re joined by the Food Standards Agency to provide information to businesses on the changes that will come into play after the Transition Period ends on 1st January 2021 in relation to food safety risk advice. From January it will be the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) that are responsible for carrying out risk assessments and making recommendations to Ministers on whether to authorise certain food and animal feed products, as well as any new products or processes for the UK market. We find out what this means for food and drink businesses who will need to adapt their processes accordingly. Joining our panel are Phil Flaherty, Head of Risk Analysis and Trade Policy Unit, Mark Willis, Head of Chemical Contaminants, and Dr Amie Adkin, Head of Risk Assessment, Food Standards Agency. They’ll explain how the landscape is changing, and what they’re doing to make the process simple for businesses, and how the agency works to assess food safety risks for consumers in the UK. Find out more about regulated products: https://www.food.gov.uk/business-guidance/placing-a-regulated-product-on-the-market-from-1-january-2021 Find out more about the risk analysis process: https://www.food.gov.uk/business-guidance/food-and-animal-feed-safety-risk-analysis-from-1-january-2021 About our panel Phil Flaherty, Head of Risk Analysis and Trade Policy Unit Philip Flaherty has worked as a Head of Unit within the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) Policy Directorate since January 2019. He has been a British civil servant for over 20 years, starting at the Health and Safety Executive before joining the FSA in 2003 to work on the implementation of the General Food Law Regulation. After this he held a range of roles in the organisation, including Head of EU Regulatory Reform and Head of Meat Hygiene Policy. Between 2014 and 2019 he worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as First Secretary for Food and Veterinary issues at the UK Representation to the EU. He is currently Head of Risk Analysis and Trade Policy Unit. Mark Willis, Head of Chemical Contaminants Mark Willis has headed up the Food Standards Agency’s Chemical Contaminants and Residues Branch since 2016. Prior to that he worked in and then lead the Food Additives, Flavourings and Food Contact Materials Branch. He has been a British civil servant for over 20 years, starting at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) in 2000 just prior to the formation of the Food Standards Agency in April that year. He has previously worked in a range of policy roles including on food additives, flavourings and nutrition and general labelling. Between 2005 and 2009 he undertook a secondment into the European Commission as desk officer on food additives and the development of the new food additives regulation. Dr Amie Adkin, Head of Risk Assessment, Food Standards Agency Dr Amie Adkin is Head of Risk Assessment at the Food Standards Agency where she has managed the Risk Assessment Unit since 2018. The Unit is comprised of around 50 scientific staff involved in assessing the risks to food and feed from chemical, microbiological, physical, allergen and radiological hazards as the competent authority, and supports three independent Scientific Advisory Committees in the areas of Novel Food and Processes (ACNFP), Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT), and Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF). Amie has a background in animal and public health risk assessment and particular interest in Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies.

Communicating In a Crisis

Risky Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2020 36:05

Chemical spills, food scares, terrorist attacks and, of course, pandemics: How can we help manage and reduce the impact of these frightening events with good communication - even while evidence is scant and uncertainty predominates? Joining David to share their experience from the frontlines are: Professor Brooke Rogers OBE - Behavioural scientist at KCL, and SAGE participant advising the UK government on the coronavirus measures and risks to national security. Professor Lord John Krebs - former head of the Food Standards Agency where he dealt with BSE in sheep, dioxins and a series of food scares. A full transcript is available here. *** Views to share? Get in touch on Twitter @RiskyTalkPod or email riskytalk@maths.cam.ac.uk Risky Talk is produced by Ilan Goodman for the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge.

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Bonus Episode: Food Systems in the Context of Covid-19

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2020 33:34

Throughout the month of September, CSaP: The Science & Policy Podcast is sharing bonus episodes which draw on material recorded as part of the Centre for Science and Policy's 2020 Virtual Annual Conference. In this episode, CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday sits down with Professor Dame Theresa Marteau, the Food Standards Agency's Emily Miles, and Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser to discuss the food system in the context of the covid-19 pandemic. -- CSaP: The Science & Policy Podcast is hosted by CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday, and is edited and produced by CSaP Communications Coordinator Kate McNeil. If you have feedback about this episode, or questions you would like us to address in a future week, please email enquiries@csap.cam.ac.uk.

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69: What does industry think of the new obesity strategy?

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2020 41:51

The Uk Government (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-obesity-strategy-unveiled-as-country-urged-to-lose-weight-to-beat-coronavirus-covid-19-and-protect-the-nhs) has announced a new obesity strategy which it hopes will tackle the growing problem of obesity in the country, and lead to more positive health outcomes. The Covid-19 pandemic has further highlighted the impact obesity can have on overall health and wellbeing, so focusing on this issue is important to everyone. However, do the plans go far enough? Are these interventions likely to lead to a positive result or should they be addressing areas that could be more impactful? To get their insight we’ve assembled a panel featuring the Food and Drink Federation, University of London and Association of Convenience Stores to discover how these measures will impact industry, and whether they’re the right approach to solving the obesity problem. About our panel Professor Martin Caraher, PhD and Msc, Emeritus Professor of Food and Health Policy Centre for Food Policy, City, University of London Martin trained as an EHO in Dublin before moving into public health and health promotion work. He was a founder member of the London Food Board and was the public health representative on the London 2012 Olympic Food Advisory Board. In 2012/13 he was the ‘Thinker in Residence’ at Deakin University, Melbourne and was the Australian Healthway’s fellow for 2008 and again in 2016. His work covers the range from food access in local communities, through work on food taxes, school food, fast food to food banks and food poverty. Martin has published over 160 articles, 5 books and 30 books chapters. He lives with his wife Maggie in west London and in his spare time he runs, reads, goes to live music events the cinema & theatre, gardens and plays with his four grandchildren (pre COVID-19). Kate Halliwell, Head of UK Diet and Health Policy, FDF Kate’s role involves the development, implementation and promotion of FDF’s nutrition and health policies across a broad remit, from product reformulation through to workplace wellbeing approaches. This includes extensive liaison with food companies to develop cross-industry policy positions and responding to scientific consultations. Previously Kate worked for the Department of Health and the Food Standards Agency on a range of nutrition policies. Kate sits on the Nutrition Society Council representing industry and is a registered nutritionist. Chris Noice, Communications Director, Association for Convenience Stores Chris joined ACS in October 2009 having graduated from York University with a degree in English and Linguistics. As Communications Director, Chris is responsible for all ACS external and internal communications, media relations and a growing research portfolio which includes the industry leading Local Shop Report. Chris is an official spokesperson for ACS, appearing frequently on national and regional radio and television including BBC News, Sky News, BBC Breakfast and the Daily Politics show. Chris completed the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Diploma in 2013 and the CIM Strategic Marketing Masterclass in 2017.

AXSChat Podcast with Vernon Sankey & Katey Lockwood

AXSChat Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2020 46:19 Transcription Available

Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh and Neil Milliken.Vernon Sankey is a Leadership Coach and Author.He has been in business for many years during which time he has been the CEO, Chairman and Board member of major international corporations including Reckitt & Colman plc (now Reckitt Benckiser), Pearson plc, Zurich AG, Taylor Woodrow (now Taylor Wimpey), Cofra AG, Firmenich SA, Gala Group plc and Atos SE, where he is a Board member, Chairman of the Audit Committee and Board Member of the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee.He was also a Governor of Harrow School for fifteen years, a Board member of the UK's Food Standards Agency, and on the advisory boards of several international companies such as Korn/Ferry International. He is also a former Chairman and co-founder of The Really Effective Development Company (RedCo Ltd) a coaching and mentoring company.Throughout his career, and enhanced by his years working with RedCo clients, Vernon has applied his cognitive psychology, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and people skills to mentoring senior executives, celebrities and high profile men and women from many different walks of life and at different stages of their career. As a result of a coaching engagement with a major international company, Vernon was invited to join its Board of Directors.Vernon has also done and continues to do considerable pro-bono coaching of adults, parents and children. He has lectured extensively on leadership, personal change and development and corporate and individual transformation in the UK and the US, at international conferences around the world and in schools and universities.In 2018 Vernon published a book called The Stairway to Happiness which includes many of the techniques and lessons of Cognitive Psychology and, in 2019, he co-authored, with Ms Katey Lockwood, a second book called: The Way; Finding Peace in Turbulent Times.Katey Lockwood is a Personal Transformation Coach and Teacher.Katey's personal development skills together with her NLP practitioner background and her knowledge of cognitive psychology and philosophy creates a unique platform for supporting businesses and helping individuals.Her personal approach is based on two, life-transforming principles, ‘Know Thyself' and ‘Be the change in the world you want to be.' Guiding her clients to work introspectively and to discover their true purpose, she helps them find a more effective, happier and successful way of conducting their life and career.Katey's clients include business executives, well-known celebrities, sportspeople and people wanting to make changes in their life. She also does voluntary coaching, helping members of the public and friends.Katey has also been a Trustee of the Katie Piper Foundation, whose vision is to have a world where scars do not limit a person's function, social inclusion or sense of wellbeing. She worked extensively with Katie herself.She studied Philosophy at The London School of Economics and has attended numerous courses. Her previous career was in media, during which she has been a model, an actress and on the Harry Potter special effects team. Katey has been working with Vernon Sankey for several years, has taken part with him in international workshops on stress management, life skills and personal transformation and, in 2019, co-authored a book with him called The Way: Finding Peace in Turbulent Times.

51: Nutritionists share their passion for improving public health

The Cannabis Conversation | Medical Cannabis | CBD | Hemp

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2020 32:12

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown the links between good nutrition, diet and overall health, and consumers are showing a heightened interest in the nutritional benefit that the food they eat offers. This interest is bound to grow, and will mean more demand for specialised nutritionists to improve health and wellbeing. Sadly, like many areas of the food industry that are facing a pronounced skills shortage, many are unaware of just how rewarding careers in nutrition are. The third in our podcast series focused on the many rewarding careers available in food and nutrition, join our panel including Moira Howie, Health and Nutrition Manager, Waitrose, and Claire Baseley, Registered Nutritionist and Nutrition Consultant as they explain their roles discuss their day-to-day responsibilities, and talk about why it’s so rewarding to pursue a career in nutrition. About our panel Moira Howie, Health and Nutrition Manager, Waitrose Moira Howie is the Health and Nutrition Manager for retailer Waitrose. Waitrose & Partners is provides a range of products, services and experiences to help its customers lead healthier lives. Earlier this year, the supermarket announced the launch of Healthy Eating Specialists. In a retail first, these shop floor specialists direct customers who ask towards healthier choices. Claire Baseley (http://www.clairebaseley.co.uk/) , Registered Nutritionist and Nutritional Consultant Claire is a highly qualified, experienced Registered Nutritionist. With a degree in Biological Science from Oxford University and a Masters of Medical Sciences in Human Nutrition from Sheffield University, Claire takes an evidence-based, professional approach to all her nutrition projects. Registered with the Association for Nutrition, Claire continually develops her expertise, so you can be sure you will always receive up to date, trusted advice. Claire is also passionate about health and nutrition and always goes the extra mile to achieve the best results. Claire has worked for the Food Standards Agency and then with the Food Industry for many years, building up in-depth experience in areas as diverse as infant and child nutrition, weight loss, adult nutrition, sports nutrition, nutrition for older people. She is experienced in product development, nutrition communications and strategy building, nutrition legislation, copy writing, and recipe analysis. Claire now runs a successful nutrition consultancy, CLB Nutrition Ltd offering a wide range of services for the food industry, individuals, families and the media. Claire has worked with the media for many years, appearing on ITV’s Save Money Good Food, Channel 4’s Jaime and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast and Food Unwrapped, as well as numerous TV and radio appearances to comment on topical nutrition news issues. A keen writer, Claire is often quoted in the press, particularly in OK! Magazine, as well as the Telegraph, Daily Mail and Mother & Baby Magazine. Image credit: Chinnapong / Shutterstock.com

EPISODE #52 CBD and EU Novel Food Regulations - FSA Update Feb 2020 with Dr Parveen Bhatharah and Dr Sarah Gaunt from The Association For The Cannabinoid Industry

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2020 33:08

What does the FSA's announcement about CBD mean for the industry in the UK?This week we are joined by Dr Parveen Bhatharah and Dr Sarah Gaunt from The Association For The Cannabinoid Industry where they occupy the roles of Regulatory Lead and Global Regulatory Services Partner. Join us as we discuss the most recent updates to the Novel Foods Regulations by The Food Standards Agency. We explore what the new regulations mean for businesses who are currently operating within the CBD industry and for those who plan to in the future.Episode SummaryNovel Food Regulations are a European regulations which govern what can and can't be sold as a food product.Before the food can be legally marketed in the EU, novel foods are required to have a pre-market safety assessment and authorisation under the Novel Foods Regulation (Regulation (EU) No 2015/2283)The regulation applies to any food and food ingredient that hadn't been used in the EU for human consumption to a significant degree before May 1997. The food must also be either: food ingredients with a new or intentionally modified primary molecular structureCBD was introduced to the Novel Food Regulations only last year, meaning products which were on the market previous to the introduction did not necessarily undergo necessary safety assessments.On 13th February 2020, the FSA updated its rules around the retail of CBD products, making it clear that companies who already have products on the market will need to file a retrospective application by March 31st 2021 otherwise their products will be taken off the market.New products must go through the standard Novel Foods application, authorisation and approval, the same as any other foods on the market.Products which ‘break the rules' will have to deal with the Trading Standards Association, who have the power to remove products from the market.The Novel Foods Regulations apply to anyone who sells CBD products, regardless of if they are bought from a wholesaler, produced in-house, or white labelled.The person at the end of the supply chain who puts the product on the shelves (the seller) is ultimately responsible for making sure their products are safe.To file an application, you need to submit a dossier to The European Commission including data about the safety of your products, manufacturing practices and ingredients. Once your product is validated by the European Commission, it is passed on to the Food Standards Agency who conduct a risk assessment.The burden of responsibility falls mostly on the brands themselves who are supplying the manufactured goods and it is their responsibility to make sure their supply chains are transparent and following good manufacturing practice.Key safety studies must be carried out on raw ingredients, is it a brand responsibility to make sure that their suppliers are safe.Other examples of novel foods include Chia Seeds, which are a recent health food but were not historically in our diet or sold commercially.There are plans to launch a kitemark for CBD indicating quality and cannabinoid safety.ResourcesJoin The ACI on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/association-for-the-cannabinoid-industryAssociation For The Cannabinoid Industry Website: https://www.theaci.co.uk/Novel Foods Regulations Guide to CBD:https://www.food.gov.uk/business-guidance/cannabidiol-cbd

Guide to a Great Later Life, with Louise Ansari

Informed Choice Radio Personal Finance Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2019 18:06

Today’s fifty-year-olds are likely to have an astounding 36 or more years to live. So if you’re approaching later life, you need to think very differently about what those extra years will hold. My guest today, Louise Ansari, has written a book designed to help you get ready for a major adventure. When We’re 64 arms readers with the knowledge, tips and pointers to think very differently about the amazing opportunity that a long life can bring. Louise is Director of Communications and Influencing at the Centre for Ageing Better, a charity working to create a society where everyone enjoys a good later life. She has worked on communications and campaigns for a range of UK and international organisations dealing with health, social policy, and local services, including several years as Head of Communications at Lambeth Council, and as a media specialist at Which? Magazine, the Food Standards Agency, and the Health Education Authority. Here's my conversation with Louise Ansari, author of When We’re 64, in episode 464 of Informed Choice Radio.

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Data Bites #6: Getting things done with data in government

Institute for Government

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2019 84:06

Better use of data is key to more effective government. Across government, teams are doing fascinating work with data. But those projects don’t get the attention they deserve. At this event, the sixth in our series, our speakers presented their data projects in an exciting, quickfire format. Each set of speakers had eight minutes, followed by eight minutes of questions from the audience. We heard from: John Sheridan, Digital Director at The National Archives, on legislation as data - meeting the challenge of Brexit Dr Natalie Byrom, Director of Research and Learning at The Legal Education Foundation, on Digital Justice: HMCTS data strategy and delivering access to justice Adam Locker, Data Architect at the Food Standards Agency, on fix the plumbing: a user’s guide Ben Coleman, Data Analytics Lead at the National Audit Office, on the NAO’s Data Service – a local solution to the problems caused by inconsistent government data releases This event was chaired by Gavin Freeguard, Programme Director and Head of Data and Transparency at the Institute for Government. We would like to thank The Legal Education Foundation for supporting this event.

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R (Newby Foods Ltd) v Food Standards Agency [2019] UKSC 18

UK Law Weekly

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2019 12:17

The quality of meat products has been a rightful concern of consumers for many years. In this episode we look at how European Union rules have affected the meat industry and whether categorisation operates in a fair manner. Music from bensound.com

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The Environment after Brexit

Costing the Earth

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2019 27:48

Where does Brexit leave the UK countryside? Tom Heap hosts a studio debate. On the panel: Shaun Spiers from the environmental think-tank, the Green Alliance; Heather Hancock, director of rural-based consultancy 'Rural Solutions', chair of the Food Standards Agency, and former chief executive of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority and Patrick Holden, founding director of the Sustainable Food Trust,. Producer: Emma Campbell

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Post-Truth: An Alumni Economist’s Perspective

SOAS Economics: Seminar series, public lectures and events

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2019 89:31

Ben Fine (SOAS) This podcast is a recording of the Third SOAS Economics Alumni Lecture on " Post-Truth: An Alumni Economist’s Perspective". Ben Fine can draw upon fifty years as an academic economist, whether as student, researcher or policy advisor. Unintimidated by the increasing technical wizardry of mainstream economics, he will use his experience and experiences to expose the truths, half-truths and untruths of the dismal science to question whether the discipline might appropriately be seen as a precocious if shifting purveyor of what has come to be known as post-truth. Speaker biography: Ben Fine is Emeritus Professor of Economics at SOAS University of London. He has (co)authored or edited over thirty books and published over 250 articles covering a wide range of economic theory, economic and social policy, development economics, political economy and the history of economic thought, with a strong intellectual commitment to interdisciplinarity. Different books were awarded the Gunnar Myrdal and Deutscher Memorial Prizes. Ben served as a founding member of the Social Science Research Committee of the UK’s Food Standards Agency and chaired the Working Group on Reform of Slaughterhouse Controls. He was an expert witness at the Sizewell B Nuclear Power Inquiry, and served as one of four international expert advisors on President Mandela’s 1995/96 South African Labour Market Commission. He was Research Editor at the Industry and Employment Branch of the Greater London Council, and has advised UNDP, UNRISD, UNDESA, UNCTAD, Oxfam and other progressive organisations including trade unions and civil society organisations. He is Chair of the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy. Speakers: Ben Fine (SOAS) Released by: SOAS Economics Podcasts

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3. Julie Pierce and Karl Hoods discuss blockchain, distributed ledger technology and CIO job titles

CIO UK Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2018 40:46

Save the Children CIO Karl Hoods and Julie Pierce, Director of Openness, Data and Digital at the Food Standards Agency, join CIO UK Editor Edward Qualtrough to discuss blockchain, distributed ledger technology beyond bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, and what's in a CIO job title during the third episode of the CIO UK podcast. Find out how UK organisations are planning to use distributed ledger technology, and why it is important for CIOs to avoid falling into the hype trap where blockchain is a solution looking for a problem.

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Going Viral Online

Microbe Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2017 25:40

In 2008, researchers from Google announced that they could predict outbreaks of the flu up to two weeks before the US authorities, by monitoring people's Google search behaviour. The algorithm tracked searches for flu symptoms and remedies, which would increase in the build-up to an outbreak. Flu is a serious disease that can cause up to half a million deaths each year – so Google flu trends caused a lot of excitement in the field when it emerged. But for all the hype, it didn't actually work. In the end, Google flu trends failed pretty badly. So what went wrong? This month, we speak to public health experts and computer scientists to find out, and learn how the field of 'Digital Epidemiology' has moved on to successfully track disease outbreaks online. We hear from Professor Guy Poppy and Dr Sian Thomas from the Food Standards Agency in the UK about a tool to track norovirus using tweets, and all the #vomit that entails. And we speak to Professor Alessandro Vespignani from Northeastern University in the US about how Twitter can help to build virtual synthetic worlds where researchers can model the spread of flu. Music: Anonymous420, Lee Rosevere and Candlegravity SFX: fattirewhitey and kinoton on freesound.org Image: artlensfoto on thinkstock

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Episode 21 - The Church Of Eli

Beef And Dairy Network

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2017 44:16

Ed Gamble, Mike Bubbins and John Rutledge join in for this episode which features an interview with Phillip Seastram, formerly of the Food Standards Agency, and Eli Roberts, who has started a new venture. By Benjamin Partridge, Ed Gamble, Mike Bubbins and John Rutledge. It’s the MaxFunDrive pledge drive! To support to the podcast, visit www.maximumfun.org/donate. Music: “Waves Of Intensity” “Light Touch” “Pink Gradient” Podington Bear soundofpicture.com Stock media provided by Setuniman/Pond5.com and Soundrangers/Pond5.com

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The first pig-human 'Chimera' and the cancer risk of overcooked toast

Up and Atom

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2017

Scientists have created a human-pig hybrid which raises the prospect of being able to grow human organs inside animals for use in transplants. While the Food Standards Agency has warned that overcooked, starchy foods can contain acrylamide - a chemical linked to cancer.

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Food Hygiene Inspections, Paypal Scam

5 Live Investigates

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2016 45:56

Food hygiene inspections in the UK have fallen by 15% since 2003, research shows - with experts warning of risks to public health. Freedom of information requests to the Food Standards Agency, show almost 47,000 fewer inspections were carried out in 2014 than in 2003. Some premises went ten years without a visit.

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Episode 8 - Eli Roberts Investigation

Beef And Dairy Network

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2016 18:45

Ed Gamble and Mike Bubbins join in with this month’s episode in which we hear from Phillip Seastram of the Food Standards Agency and do some investigation at the home of Eli Roberts, formerly of Roberts Slaughterhouse. By Benjamin Partridge, Ed Gamble and Mike Bubbins. Music: Floating In The Midnight Breeze by FoolBoyMedia/Freesound.org Audio: Kickhat/Freesound.org, Cell31_Sound_Productions/Freesound.org, primeval_polypod/Freesound.org Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Stock media provided by Setuniman/Pond5.com and Soundrangers/Pond5.com

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Show 9 - Crisis Communications & Social Storytelling

the csuite podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2015 43:08

Russell Goldsmith is joined by CIPR President and MD of Pinch Point Communications, Sarah Pinch, Stephen Humphreys, Director of Communications at the Food Standards Agency and Andrew Vincent, Associate Partner at Instinctif Partners, to discuss Social Media's impact on Crisis Communications. Included in the show is an interview with Louisa Bartoszek, Director of Media Relations at BNY Mellon discussing Social Storytelling. To continue the discussion on twitter, please use the hashtag #csuitepodcast

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Campylobacter in Chicken; Artificial Intelligence Guru Demis Hassabis; Sexology; Lucy

BBC Inside Science

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2014 27:57

Food Standards Agency report reveals 70% of supermarket chicken contaminated. Chicken: It's the nation's favourite meat. But today, a report released by the Food Standards Agency has revealed that around three quarters of that chicken is infected by campylobacter - a family of bacteria, 12 species of which are known to cause food poisoning. The estimated cost to the UK economy is £900 million per year. All supermarkets are implicated and all supply chains too. It doesn't cause outbreaks and thorough cooking kills all the bugs. Professor Hugh Pennington tells Dr Adam Rutherford why campylobacter is such a tough bug to crack. Can machines think? Neuroscientist, chess master and world-champion gamer, Demis Hassabis is this week's winner of the Royal Society's Mullard Award. In 2011, he founded an AI company, Deep Mind which was acquired by Google earlier this year for £400million.He tells Adam why he believes one of the best tests for artificial intelligence is an ability to learn how to play computer games. Why scientists study sex Sex between humans has long been something of a taboo for scientists. But the Institute of Sexology is tackling it head-on. It's a new exhibition at London's Wellcome Collection, a frank exploration of sex and the scientists who've studied it for the past century or so. Tracey Logan went to preview the display, and asked: Why do scientists study sex? Australopithecus discovery 40 years on 23rd November 2014 was a significant 40th birthday. Or, to be a bit more precise, it was a 3 million, 200 thousand and 40th birthday. On that day in 1974, Donald Johanson and his team in Ethiopia discovered the fossilised remains of AL 288-1, who became universally known as Lucy. Don talks to Adam Rutherford about the young woman who changed his life. Producer: Anna Buckley & Fiona Roberts Assistant Producer: Jen Whyntie.

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Problems with Poultry?

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2014 27:58

Is the poultry industry fit for purpose? As our consumption of chicken increases and UK poultry production intensifies, Dan Saladino looks at the modern poultry industry.Two recent events have brought the production of chicken into sharp focus. The first is an investigation by the Guardian's Special Correspondent Felicity Lawrence into allegations of hygiene failings at major production plants.It was a serious claim as poultry production is already under scrutiny because of the presence of campylobacter in most chicken, a bacteria that can cause food poisoning.The report triggered a call by the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, for checks on two factories. The company involved strongly denied any problems had taken place, subsequent checks by the Food Standards Agency found no breaches and the plants were given the all clear. However the episode brought poultry production under national scrutiny.Dan is given full access to the production line of one of the plants involved. Based in Scunthorpe it's the largest poultry slaughter house in the UK and is owned by the largest supermarket chicken supplier 2 Sisters. They explain how our chicken is produced and what kind of measures are in place to reduce levels of campylobacter.The second story that brought poultry to renewed national attention was a recent decision by the Food Standards Agency on its plans to publish data revealing which supermarkets had the highest levels of campylobacter in their supply chains. In March it was announced that the agency was pushing ahead with "steely determination" to publish the names and levels of the bacteria. In July that decision was reversed and that data might not be available for another year. Dan asks the Food Standards Agency why consumers won't be getting this information as soon as possible.

Raw Milk

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2014 27:22

With a Food Standards Agency consultation underway, Sheila Dillon and guests discuss the controversial subject of raw milk. Banned in Scotland in 1983, the current system in England allows raw unpasteurised milk to be sold directly from the farmer. Raw milk producers are subject to stringent and regular laboratory tests and their products have to carry a warning on the label that the milk may contain properties that are harmful. But there is a growing demand for raw milk in the UK and means of supply are testing the current rules ; The FSA recently threatened prosecution over the presence of a vending machine selling raw milk in Selfridges. Advocates argue that raw milk has many positive health benefits that are lost with pasteurisation. The debate for some is about the right of the individual to choose what risks they take. Balancing that demand with the need to protect public health is the challenge the Food Standards Agency faces. In America, the libertarian argument is even more polarised. With the prices paid for pasteurised milk being on a seemingly downward trajectory in the UK, and with internet shopping making a mockery of distribution rules, Sheila will get the views of all the interested parties. The passion this subject stirs, and the big questions it raises will make for a lively and engaging listen to everyone - raw milk and non raw milk drinkers alike.

Horsemeat - a Food Programme update

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2013 27:41

In January of this year the Food Standards Agency confirmed results showing horsemeat had been found in supermarket burgers. Over the next few days and weeks, more DNA testing would reveal more beef products contained horsemeat.Ten months on there have been no prosecutions or fines and we're still waiting to be told how the unlabelled horsemeat entered the food chain, and who put it there.Criminal investigations are underway across Europe, led in the UK by the City of London Police. Most public information on the scandal however has come from two sources, a report by Ireland's Department of Agriculture and secondly, the hours of evidence heard by MPs on the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee.The Food Programme explains what we know from these sources and also why an out of court settlement between two companies reveals much about one of the meat supply chains from the Netherlands into the UK.The programme hears from the Guardian's Special Correspondent, Felicity Lawrence, whose updated book, Not On The Label, gives a detailed account of the scandal. Reporters Ella McSweeney and Anna Holligan give the latest developments in Ireland and the Netherlands. The Grocer magazine's Julia Glotz, explains how our shopping habits have changed since the scandal and why this proving to be a problem for companies with no involvement in the contamination.Where are the investigations heading and what chances of successful convictions? These are questions Sheila Dillon puts to Andrew Rhodes of the Food Standards Agency.The programme is produced by Dan Saladino.

Food Standards Agency Open Board Meeting 16/07/2013

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2013

We are pleased to present the Open Board Meeting of the Food Standards Agency held on 16/07/2013.

Food Standards Agency Open Board Meeting 04/06/2013

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2013

We are pleased to present the Open Board Meeting of the Food Standards Agency held on 04/06/2013.

(2013/06/03) Part 1: What's in our food (Food)

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2013 75:17

Edition #723 Part 1: What's in our food Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith Ch. 2: Act 1: Dairy Industry Petitioning to Hide Aspartame in Milk - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 03-17-13 Ch. 3: Song 1: Pullin' punches - Arkells Ch. 4: Act 2: All-Natural Food Preservative Causes All-Natural Cancer - The Onion Ch. 5: Song 2: All Natural - Natural Vibrations Ch. 6: Act 3: Ground Turkey Contaminated with Feces?? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 05-04-13 Ch. 7: Song 3: Turkey in the straw - Fiddle Fiddle Fiddle Ch. 8: Act 4: Ingredients In Processed Food To Avoid - Citizen Radio - Air Date 5-10-13 Ch. 9: Song 4: Eat for two - 10,000 Maniacs Ch. 10: Act 5: The Food Standards Agency is dropping the ball - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 03-07-13 Ch. 11: Song 5: Trust in me - Etta James Ch. 12: Act 6: Go Vegan, Save The Planet - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 01-17-13 Ch. 13: Song 6: Sick as a dog - Brad Sucks Ch. 14: Act 7: In battling corporate greed, tenacity matters - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 2-28-13 Ch. 15: Song 7: Stick a little label on it - Wizz Jones Ch. 16: Act 8: General Mills Pulls Nitroglycerin Chex From Store Shelves - The Onion Ch. 17: Song 8: Cereal - The Verve Pipe Ch. 18: Act 9: How Food Giants Are Hooking People - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 05-06-13 Ch. 19: Song 9: Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard Ch. 20: Act 10: How Corporations Create Animal Cruelty - Lee Camp - Air Date: 04-10-13 Voicemails: Ch. 21: Discussion Sam Seder's reaction to the Boston Bombings - Flavio from Orlando, FL Ch. 22: Clarification on the previous message Ch. 23: Agreeing with Wade on the prison system - Alyson from Erie, CO Leave a message at 202-999-3991 Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Ratatat Ch. 24: Final comments on how I met Ira Glass and totally failed to mention podcasts or patents Produced by: Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes!

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Nudge Nudge

I'm a Public Health Professional Get Me Out Of Here!

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2013 8:04

This week on I'm a Public Health Professional Get Me Out of Here Pete gives us a nudge in the right direction with the story of the flying football in the garden, enters into a frustrating discussion with the Food Standards Agency and asks should the boss go back to the floor. Oh and there's a snippet of Monty Python as well! Written, Presented, and Produced by Pete Hill Featured weekly on John Hicks Health Kicks Show on UK Health Radio Available for download at the iTunes Store This podcast is protected by a creative commons licence any unauthorised reproduction for commercial gain is strictly prohibited.

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Lord John Krebs

The Life Scientific

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2013 27:58

As a scientist, John Krebs made his name discovering that the brains of birds that store seeds are different from those that don't. But he gave up his successful research career and job as Professor of Zoology at Oxford University to move into science policy and management. After five years as Chief Executive of the Natural Environment Research Council, John Krebs became the first Chairman of the Food Standards Agency, where he was embroiled in controversial questions such as is organic food better for us and how can the spread of foot and mouth disease be stopped. Lord Krebs is now Master of Jesus College, Oxford, but is still involved in issues where science meets public policy, in particular the debate over whether culling badgers will prevent cattle contracting TB. He talks to Jim al-Khalili about his life in science and in the public eye and about how he brings a scientific approach to every issue.

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Food Standards Agency Open Board Meeting 17/04/2013

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2013

We are pleased to present the Open Board Meeting of the Food Standards Agency held on 17/04/2013.

Food Standards Agency Open Board Meeting 05/03/2013

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2013

We are pleased to present the Open Board Meeting of the Food Standards Agency held on 05/03/2013.

Greed, Horsemeat, Charity Money and Youth Unemployment

Cathy Humphreys

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2013

BRITAIN’S biggest banks face compensation claims worth billions amid accusations of mis-selling "absurdly complex products" to small businesses. More than 90 per cent of the complex interest rate hedging products could have been mis-sold, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) revealed. I'm sure everybody completely understands these details. Lenders have already set aside more than £700million to compensate potential claims but many experts warn the final cost could exceed £10BILLION. However, the bankers will still be getting their bonuses. BRITISH burgers could have been contaminated with horse meat for more than a year. Is anyone really that surprised. Could can mean anything. The Food Standards Agency’s boss said that “filler” from Poland containing beef and horse meat could have been used by the Irish processor at the centre of the scandal for at least 12 months. Appearing before a committee of MPs, FSA chief executive Catherine Brown said: “This filler had been used for a year. “When the Polish get to the bottom of this we hope to know whether it’s likely this has been going on for all that time.” She also stressed there could be prosecutions over the scandal. Tim Smith, of Tesco — which was rapped over a burger with 29 per cent horse meat — told the committee the firm had taken legal advice about the possibility of being sued. TWO thirds of Britain’s £11billion aid budget is channelled through fatcat global bodies that cream off admin costs, a report warns today. Basically, we've all known that there is too much of the money raised by charity going into administration costs. The report, by MPs on the International Development Committee, says two thirds of taxpayers’ aid spending in 2011-12 — including nearly 40 per cent bound for individual nations — went via agencies such as the UN and World Bank despite their “high costs and limited effectiveness”. A shocking picture accompanies this story. t was like a trip tback to the 80s when I was a YTS Teacher at cornwall College as we learnt a shocking fact about Britain. Among the major European countries, we are in the relegation zone when it comes to youth unemployment. Only crisis-hit Spain has higher numbers of young unemployed than the UK. 'One Nation' ... Labour leader Ed Miliband. Nearly one million British youngsters cannot find work, and tens of thousands have been seeking jobs for more than a year. We covered a story last week that many don't want to work as it would affect their benefits.

Greed, Horsemeat, Charity Money and Youth Unemployment

Cathy Humphreys

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2013

Food Standards Agency Open Board Meeting 22/01/2013

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2013

We are pleased to present the Open Board Meeting of the Food Standards Agency held on 22/01/2013.

Horsemeat and the Irish burger scandal

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2013 27:33

Ireland's horsemeat burger scandal makes the guarantees on traceability and product standards by some supermarkets look unreliable. The discovery may also be a wakeup call for the Food Standards Agency. In a special edition of The Food Programme, Sheila Dillon talks to former regulators and experts on food processing to find out how it could have happened and what kind of meat supply chain it has revealed. The discovery comes as many people monitoring food safety have expressed concerns about cuts in budgets to the UK's food testing regime. Public analyst Duncan Campbell explains why he thinks the two scenarios are connected. To shed light on the global trade in horse meat and protein products Sheila speaks to Latitude News journalist Jack Rodolico. He's traced the movement of race horses into the EU food supply chain. New York Times reporter Michael Moss also explains why the UK might be following in the footsteps of a debate around cheap meat sparked off in the US by the so called "pink slime" scandal. Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Dan Saladino.

Food Standards Agency Open Board Meeting 11/12/2012

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2012

We are pleased to present the Open Board Meeting of the Food Standards Agency held on 11/12/2012.

Food Standards Agency Open Board Meeting 13/11/2012

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2012

We are pleased to present the Open Board Meeting of the Food Standards Agency held on 13/11/2012.

Green & Black Food Safety Stickers launched

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2012 3:07

Cornwall Council and the Food Standards Agency have launched a scheme at Jamaica Inn to improve hygiene in restaurants, hotels and take aways across Cornwall.

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