Editorial Comment Accountability Key On Food Hygiene Standards

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Ur further revelations today about the shortcomings of food premises inspection regimes in Wales give further cause for concern.

It is shocking that it has taken the Food Standards Agency more than two-and-a-half years to publish its audits of three local authorities. When a major point of instituting such audit procedures was to reassure the public, it seems extraordinary that details of the findings were kept internal to the Agency for so long. The only explanation that has been offered for the delay is a lack of resources. Clearly the matter was not seen to merit high priority at the FSA - a puzzling conclusion given the worrying content of the audits.

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Editorial Comment Accountability Key On Food Hygiene Standards

It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that complacency has existed. Before the recent E.coli outbreak, there h...

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