All Hygiene & Safety articles
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NewsUK lamb consignments released after being held at Calais
A number of consignments of lamb being held at a Border Control Post in Calais have now been released to return to the UK.
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NewsFSA agrees to consultation to financially support smaller abattoirs
The Food Standards Agency board has agreed to a public consultation in 2026 on proposals for a revised discount system for abattoirs.
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NewsFSA and FSS produce guidance on cell-cultivated products
The Food Standards Agency has partnered with Food Standards Scotland to draw up the UK’s first safety guidance for cell-cultivated products.
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NewsLMC says market access is priority after confirmed NI case of Bluetongue
Following a confirmed case of Bluetongue in Northern Ireland, the Livestock & Meat Commission is urging beef and lamb producers to exercise vigilance.
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NewsGovernment urged to ensure “robust” import controls after Spain ASF outbreak
Spain has confirmed its first case of African swine fever since 1994, as the National Pig Association urges Government to protect the UK pig sector.
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NewsEFRA Committee urges Government to implement biosecurity recommendations
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee has warned that a delay in the implementation of its recommendations to Government on biosecurity will allow “alarming amounts” of illegal imports to cross the border.
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NewsWales introduces compulsory bird housing measures
The Welsh Government has announced that poultry and captive bird keepers in Wales must house their birds as measures are introduced to “combat the heightened risk” of avian influenza.
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NewsEU votes to recognise UK BSE status as negligible
EU Member States have voted in favour of recognising the UK as having negligible status for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
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NewsHousing order to cover England as avian influenza cases rise
The UK Chief Veterinary Officer has ordered a mandatory housing order to cover the whole of England from Thursday 6th November 2025, following the escalating number of confirmations of avian influenza in kept and wild birds.
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News“Immediate collaboration” needed between industry and Government
The Association of Independent Meat Suppliers has expressed “serious concern” over the continuing spread of Bluetongue across Great Britain and the “apparent lack of strategic coherence” in the national response.
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NewsAvara Foods calls legal claim a “misunderstanding”
Nearly 4,000 people have joined a legal claim accusing poultry producers and others of causing pollution within the rivers Wye and Lugg.
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NewsLMC launches strategy to simplify quality assurance scheme
The Livestock and Meat Commission has published a three-year strategy for the NI Beef and Lamb Farm Quality Assurance Scheme, which aims to simplify audits, cut paperwork and use technology to “improve how assurance is delivered”.
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NewsAHDB relaunches campaign to raise pig transport standards
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board has relaunched its Muck Free Truck campaign as it aims to strengthen biosecurity across the UK pig industry.
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OpinionAIMS “increasingly frustrated” with ad hoc Bluetongue controls
The Association of Independent Meat Suppliers has revealed its frustration with the UK Bluetongue controls, as executive director Jason Aldiss finds the controls have imposed costs and disrupted the meat industry.
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NewsDemand for cheap meat is “fuelling illegal imports” finds EFRA
The EFRA Committee has published its new report, ‘Biosecurity at the Border: Britain’s Illegal Meat Crisis’, which has warned that Defra’s approach to personal meat imports has been “unnecessarily lax”.
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SponsoredThe future of hygiene: ProvaStep by Sterilex
Global hygiene company Sterilex talks to Meat Management about ProvaStep, a granular floor disinfectant, and its applications in the food industry.
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NewsFour men found guilty of placing unfit meat back in food chain
Four men have been given custodial sentences for diverting meat not fit for human consumption back into the human food chain.
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NewsGovernment cancels extra border checks to make meat trade “cheaper and easier”
Government has suspended the introduction of extra border checks on live animal imports from the EU and on specific animal and plant goods from Ireland ahead of its new SPS deal with the EU.
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NewsAIMS calls for greater UK meat inspection support
Dr Jason Aldiss BEM, executive director of the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers, has called traditional meat inspection “a costly, century-old performance that does nothing to protect public health”.
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NewsFood businesses prosecuted for selling incorrectly labelled kebab meat
Two food businesses have been prosecuted for selling products made of the wrong meat after previous warnings from Trading Standards.
