Foodlaw-Reading Dr David Jukes, The University of Reading, UK
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Food Law News - UK - 2023

FSA Board Paper (FSA 23-09-07), 7 September 2023

ADMINISTRATION - Incidents and Resilience Annual Report 2022/23

FSA Board Paper: Incidents and Resilience Annual Report 2022/23 A copy of the paper is provided on this site in pdf format (click on image). Provided under the Open Government Licence. The original web page accessed from:

The following is the Summary from the paper. The paper will be discussed at the FSA Board Meeting on 20 September 2023.

This paper provides an overview of the work undertaken by the Incidents and Resilience Unit (IRU) to carry out food and feed incident response/prevention and outlines the challenges faced in 2022/23.

1. Summary

1.1    The paper provides an overview of the work undertaken by the Incidents and Resilience Unit (IRU) to carry out food and feed incident response/prevention and outlines the challenges faced in 2022/23.  These include the increasing demands of foodborne outbreak management, the continuing need to adapt after our exit from the EU and the impact of food chain disruption such as that caused by the Ukraine crisis.

1.2    The Board is asked to:

Consider and comment on:

• the work of IRU since the 2021/22 Annual update to the Board in September 2022 to protect consumers.
• the emergent scale of incidents and outbreaks including what it means for consumers and wider parties involved in protection activities, and.
• the work to develop our response to large scale crises and capability development across the FSA.

Discuss and support:

• our incidents and outbreak management response, and 
• the development of our approach to incident prevention.

For the previous report (2021-22), see:

• 30 August 2022 ADMINISTRATION - FSA Board Paper: Incidents and Resilience Annual Report 2021 to 2022