Food Standards Agency Data

List of Animal Welfare and Hygiene sections that FSA staff record non-compliances against on the integrated Animal Welfare and Enforcement system

Number of Slaughter Licences and Certificates of Competence issued by year. Please note that Welfare Legislation changed in 2014 in Wales and 2015 in England which removed the issue of Slaughter Licences and implemented Certificates of Competence. No further updates to this dataset will be made - it has now been replaced by 'Certificates of Competence'.

Approved food additives and their E Numbers, used for Colours, Preservatives, Antioxidants, Sweeteners, Emulsifiers, Stabilisers, Thickeners and Gelling Agents. Most additives are only permitted to be used in certain foods and are subject to specific quantitative limits.

Details of successful food hygiene/food safety and animal welfare/cattle identification/animal by products prosecutions, including fine amounts awarded, undertaken by Food Standards Agency.

A list of companies exporting to the European Union currently made subject by the European Commission to Intensified Official Controls (those with the statuses ‘Active’, ‘Imposing checks’ or ‘New’ in the Intensified Official Controls part of the TRACES/TRACES NT system). It is possible that certain companies who have recently been made subject to checks and have yet to have a check carried out on them may not be on this list.

A list of specific products not of animal origin which are currently under harmonised import controls in the European Union (EU) for import from specific non-EU countries.

The UK National Reference Laboratories (NRLs) network is responsible for setting up EU-wide standards for routine procedures and reliable testing methods in the areas of feed and food and animal health. Details of UK NRLs in food and feed and the responsible department

Guidance and examples of labelling requirements under EC Regulation No. 1829/2003 for authorised GMOs.

Number of Slaughter Licences and Certificates of Competence that have been suspended or revoked by year

Number of instances and reasons for suspension or revocation of Slaughter Licences or Certificates of Competence by year

Throughput data for each species collected by the Food Standards Agency in approved slaughterhouses