Protect our food

UNISON has teamed up with a bereaved father to make sure that the UK doesn’t lose its food safety standards to deregulation.
Campaigner Steve Nash, UNISON national officer Paul Bell and lawyer Sean Humber delivered a 219,000-strong petition to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) headquarters in London.
It calls on new FSA chief executive Emma Miles to scrap plans that would permit slaughterhouses carry out their own safety inspections.
“What the FSA is trying to do is move to a risk-base