27 Apr 2006
| by Viki Cooke
degenerating – like the GM food debate – with the public agenda dominated by hostile single-issue pressure ...
20 Apr 2006
| by Mike Granatt
As one dead swan sent the press into a frenzy, stakeholders were consulted and involved, websites rolled out, briefings held, and special public advice lines set up. It all seems so different from the foot and mouth outbreak in 2001. Then, the old Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food seemed ...
23 Feb 2006
| by Mike Granatt
As avian flu captures the headlines, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs...and Food (MAFF). The early days of foot-and-mouth were handled by MAFF alone. It did an excellent job ...
and its agencies, food safety is with the Food Standards Agency, and so on. There is no single resource ...