House of Commons - Food Contamination - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee - Fifth Report
Food Contamination

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 10 July 2013.

Contents

2 Tests and traceability

The testing regime

Test results and consequences for the processed beef sector

Trace contamination

Traceability

Prosecutions

3 Horse passport systems

Tests for bute

Towards a new passport system

4 Responses

The role of industry

EU proposals for supply chains

The role of the FSA

Remit of the FSA

Powers in relation to industry

5 Capacity and food supply networks

Local Government capacity

Implications of reduced funding

Public Analysts

Lessons to be learnt

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of additional written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and written evidence

Tuesday 5 March 2013: Councillor Mehboob Khan and Steve Jorden, Local Government Association; Andrew Simpson and Stephen Rossides, British Meat Processors Association; Paul Finnerty and Stuart Roberts, ABP Food Group; Peter Kendall, NFU

Tuesday 23 April 2013: Professor Allan Reilly and Raymond Ellard, Food Safety Authority of Ireland; Elizabeth Moran and Dr Duncan Campbell, Association of Public Analysts

Tuesday 14 May 2013: James Fairbairn, Former Commercial Director, Freeza Meats; Catherine Brown, Rt Hon Lord Rooker, Steve Wearne and Andrew Rhodes, Food Standards Agency

Tuesday 21 May 2013: Joanna Darmanin, Bernard Van Goethem, Koen Van Dyck and Jacqueline Minor, European Commission

Wednesday 11 June 2013: David Heath MP, Defra and Andrew Rhodes, Food Standards Agency

Written evidence

Additional written evidence