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Food Standards Agency News Food Standards Agency News FSA Board meeting 17 July 2008 MHS Annual Report and Accounts 2007/8 Views wanted on shiitake extract Co-op recalls sliced cooked turkey breast Do you know how hygienic your favourite eating house is ? Working with food in the classroom Post-Chernobyl monitoring reports published Dietary survey of infants and young children
Fines for mango health claims
Supermarket
group Asda has been fined £5,000 and ordered to pay £1,140 in costs
for making claims about the anti-cancer properties of its mangoes. Asda’s
legal representative said the company had "fallen foul of
legislation never meant to be used to prosecute a responsible,
respectable company such as Asda" and argued it was not in the
public interest to prosecute retailers over the promotion of healthy
eating. For
more information please go to: Vitamin claim on drink lands company in courtNichols
plc have been prosecuted by Essex County Council for a labelling error
on their Vimto Fruit Blast. The product labelling stated that the drink
contained 4.1mg of vitamin C per 100ml, however when the product was
tested no trace of the vitamin was found. The company had carried out
its own tests on the drink, which was produced in
October 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/3747766.stm
Fat content labelling of minced meatA survey carried out by the Food Standards Agency has revealed that consumers find fat content labelling of minced meat products misleading. The survey found that products claiming to be 'extra' or 'super' lean often contained as much, if not more, fat than 'lean' mince. Several samples of mince claiming to be 'extra' or 'super' lean had higher fat contents than some lean mince. The survey concluded that consumers often pay a higher price for super/extra lean mince products yet the survey shows that often these products contain as much, if not more, fat than standard products. October 2004 For full details please go to: www.food.gov.uk/news/pressreleases/2004/sep/mincedmeatlabels
Trader prosecuted for excessive packagingNorthamptonshire Trading Standards service have prosecuted Office World for excessive packaging. Three test purchases were found to have excessive packaging with the products only filling 19%, 7% and 29% of the packaging. The company was fined £2000 plus £550 costs. October 2004 For more details go to: http://www.letsrecycle.com/materials/plastics/news.jsp?story=3726
Company fined over dangerous candles
Poundland Ltd pleaded guilty to a charge of selling dangerous candles and were fined £1,000 and ordered to pay £866 in costs. Tests showed the candles produced large flames and massive molten wax spillage, which presented a serious fire risk in the home.
August 2004 For more details go to: http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/cgi-bin/northants/newsitem.cgi?file=prss0021.txt Estate
agent fined over glazing claim
An
estate agent who falsely claimed that a house was fitted with double
glazing throughout has been fined £8,000 after a Trading Standards
prosecution. Richard Davies, a fellow of the National Association of
Estate Agents and a partner with More information at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/29/nbul29.xml Crackdown
on credit advertising
The
Office of Fair Trading (OFT) have announced a probe into credit
advertisements in response to a government investigation which found
that 36 per cent of the adverts in eight national newspapers failed to
comply with consumer law. The OFT is particularly concerned by
advertisements that omit the APR when legally required to include it,
that claim credit is "interest-free' if interest is charged when
borrowers fail to pay by a specified date, or that fail to flag up
brokers' fees or other hidden charges. £19,000 fines for overcharging
Lambeth
Trading Standards Sainsbury’s pleaded
guilty to 10 offences under the Consumer Protection Act for giving
misleading price indications and were ordered to pay a total
of £19,441 in fines and costs, to be paid within 14 days.
3 June 2004
For more information please see: http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/intradoc/groups/public/documents/pressrelease/026136.pdf Major retailer fined for selling dangerous Christmas toys
Tesco was fined £2,500 and ordered to pay £1,363 costs after pleading guilty to a charge of selling dangerous Christmas reindeer toy sacks. The reindeer sacks had bells attached which tests showed could easily be pulled off and swallowed by a child, contrary to the General Product Safety Regulations 1994.
The goods were sold under the Tesco label but had been imported by a company called Revival Trading Limited. Legal proceedings were instituted against the importer however as the company had gone into liquidation and will not trade again the case against the importer was withdrawn.
May 2004 For more details please see: http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/cgi-bin/northants/newsitem.cgi?file=prss0007.txt
Foreign
language food products
Job
Lot Trading Company, a discount food store based in 28
packs of Silhouette vanilla frozen desert labelled entirely in a foreign
language 91
cartons of Kellogg's Chocos labelled entirely in a foreign language 207
cans of Coca Cola light labelled entirely in a foreign language 47
packs of Penguin biscuits without a 'best before' date 57
packs of 20
packs of an Indian selection of onion bhajis and samosas without an
ingredients list, 'best before' date, or address of manufacturer or
distributor. Heavy fines for illegal health claims
A company and its director admitted selling dietary
supplements making illegal claims that they could prevent, treat or cure
a variety of human diseases. Velvet Energy
October 2003 Find
more information on this prosecution at: http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/cgi-bin/northants/newsitem.cgi?file=prss0129.txt
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