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Cuts Watch #125: The Food Standards Agency

12th July 2010

Nicola Smith Nicola Smith

Press reports suggest that the Food Standards Agency is to be completely cut.  The FSA reportedly has 2000 staff. It was set up set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 to protect the public’s health and consumer interests in relation to food.

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  2. Comment made by The Squeeze on Jul 13th 2010 at 11:12 pm:

    They’ll just move the EU’s lackys back into DEFRA where they came from and WHO’s lackys back into DoH.