Environment secretary agrees at Commons committee that supermarkets and food assurance schemes should share information after fallout over 2SistersMichael Gove, the environment secretary, has intervened in the fallout over food standards at the country’s largest chicken supplier by stating that supermarkets and food assurance schemes should hand over intelligence on meat plants to the Food Standards Agency. During his appearance in front of the environment, food and rural affairs committee on Wednesday, Gove was told how the FSA was not being informed “of what’s happening in [meat] factories” following inspections conducted by the supermarkets and food standards assurance schemes, such as Red Tractor. The grocer handed the full Coupar Angus report to the FSA after being contacted by the Guardian and ITV. The exchange follows leaked documents showing how Tesco’s auditors gave the Coupar Angus plant what they described as a “red” rating because of five “major” process failings. There is and never was any risk to food safety at Coupar Angus.

Source: The Guardian December 20, 2017 18:22 UTC