Foodlaw-Reading
Dr David Jukes, The University of Reading, UK
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FSA Board Meeting Paper (FSA 18-06-05), 6 June 2018
A meeting of the FSA Board will be held on the 20 June 2018. Papers for the meeting have been published. One of the papers, prepared by Rod Ainsworth and Rebecca Lamb relates to the preparations for Brexit. A copy of the ‘Summary’ to the paper is given below.
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An update on the Food Standards Agency’s preparations for the UK’s exit from the European Union A copy of the full paper is available on this site (click on image). A supporting document on the consumer perceptions of Brexit was provided as a appendix to the report. A copy is available - see: Citizen's Views - January 2018 |
The Board last received a report on the Food Standards Agency’s preparations for the UK’s exit from the European Union at its open meeting in September 2017. This paper provides an update of progress with those preparations, and seeks Board Members’ views on one of the key aspects of those preparations: the way in which food safety risk management decisions should be taken once the UK is no longer part of the EU. The paper also brings before the Board the outcome of the FSA’s latest round of consumer insight research into consumers’ concerns in relation to EU Exit.
As with the earlier paper in September of last year, the preparations described in this paper relate only to the Food Standards Agency (FSA), an independent nonministerial department created by the Food Standards Act 1999. Any concerns or issues referred to are those of the FSA, in pursuit its statutory objective: “to protect public health from risks which may arise in connection with the consumption of food (including risks caused by the way in which it is produced or supplied) and otherwise to protect the interests of consumers in relation to food.” Nothing in this paper is intended to pre-empt decisions yet to be taken by Government or to set out proposals for negotiating with the EU.
The Board is asked to Consider and comment on the options described in the paper (paragraphs 13 and 14) for taking food safety risk management decision, in the context of the criteria agreed at the September 2017 meeting (paragraph 5).
