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About Me
Grainne Gilson
Schools Projects and Consumer Engagement
Officer
Food Standards Agency Scotland (FSAS)
FSAS Update
• Food Standards Scotland
• Food Hygiene Training Funding
• Food Information Regulation
• Healthy Eating Tutorial
• New School Resources
• CookinCastle
Food Standards Scotland (FSS)
•FSAS currently operates within the UK FSA.
•In June 2012 Scottish Ministers agreed to create a new food body for Scotland,
Food Standards Scotland.
•FSS will be an independent, evidence based and transparent body.
•FSS will be a non-ministerial office, allowing operational autonomy from
Scottish Ministers however; FSS still accountable to the Scottish Parliament.
•FSS Vesting Day – 1 April 15
Why Food Standards Scotland?
FSS will replace FSA in Scotland
and carry out its current functions
•Food and feed safety and standards•Diet & Nutrition•Food Labelling•Meat Inspection Policy & Operational Delivery•Oversight of LA delivery and audit
Being FSS will let us, contribute to the Scottish Governments purpose: •Tackling poor diet and food-borne diseases to help people in Scotland live longer, healthier lives. •Being more efficient and more responsive to Scottish circumstances, helping to ensure that our public services are high quality, continually improving and efficient•Supporting growth of the Scottish food and drink industry by providing a strong, international reputation for safe, quality food through proportionate regulation
European Food Information for Consumers Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011
• Brings together general food labelling and nutrition labelling into one
piece of legislation.
• Most of the general labelling requirements apply from 13 December
2014, with mandatory nutrition declarations needed for most prepacked
foods from 13 December 2016.
Basic Principles:
– Protection for consumers’ health & interests.
– Food information should not be misleading
– Assist in the free movement of foodstuffs – EU Internal Market.
Some of the changes…
Allergens
•Prepacked foods- New requirement to emphasise allergenic foods in the ingredients list.
•Unpackaged foods- Allergen information will be required for food sold non-prepacked, including in catering situations. (Provided verbally or in hardcopy.)
Nutrition
•From 13 December 2016, nutrition labelling will be required for most prepacked foods.
•Small change to format (Order of nutrients, salt used in place of sodium)
•A new voluntary Front of Pack (FOP) nutrition labelling approach.
More information
European Commission (FIC Regulation and Commission Q & A)http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/labellingnutrition/foodlabelling/proposed_legislation_en.htm
Nutrition Labelling Guidancehttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/technical-guidance-on-nutrition-labelling
On line traininghttp://www.food.gov.uk/enforcement/enforcetrainfund/onlinetraining/food-labelling-training-online/
FSA advice
•FSA allergy pages for tools, advice and guidance: http://food.gov.uk/policy-advice/allergyintol/
•Allergy E-learning http://allergytraining.food.gov.uk/
•Consumer advice http://food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/publication/allergy-leaflet.pdf
Food Hygiene Training -Secondary School Students
• Delivered in Partnership with the Royal Environmental Health Institute
of Scotland (REHIS).
• 100% uptake since August 2014.
• 194 Schools have received funding.
• Deliver Food Hygiene Training to approx. 17, 000.
• Elementary Food Hygiene Training - over 12,000 students.
• Introduction to Food Hygiene Training - over 4,000 students.
• Content derived from key government recommendations on healthy eating
• Suitable for anyone involved in healthy eating initiatives and delivering healthy eating messages.
• Delivered in 4 short modules:
Module 1: Why a healthy balanced diet is important.
Module 2: What a healthy balanced diet looks like.
Module 3: How to achieve a healthy balanced diet.
Module 4: Test (with printable certificate on successful completion)
Where we are currently:
• Prototype completed in POWER POINT but will be converted to web version for inclusion on our new FSS website
• Testing the content , including the questions with end users.
Online Healthy Eating Tutorial- in development
New School Resources
Requested by Teachers, Informed by Teachers, Approved by Teachers
New School Pack
Provide teachers with support in delivering the health and
wellbeing areas of the Curriculum of excellence
Schools Pack includes:
•Pack of Food Cards
•4 Food Safety Scenes & Stickers (2 Food Storage & 2 Kitchen)
•2 Teachers Guides
Food Cards125 Food Cards
• Raw Ingredients/Meal Cards
• Front- Real life image
• Back- Snippets of Information
Used to introduce:
Nutrition
Safe and hygienic practices
Food and the consumer
Food Safety Scenes
You can use the Posters to
introduce:
Food Storage
Basic principles of safe food
Practices
4C’s
Cleaning
Cooking
Chilling
Cross Contamination
Teachers Guide
•Activities clearly laid out with accompanying worksheets
•Activities matched to experiences and outcomes
•FSA Key messages - healthy eating, labelling, food safety & allergies
Currently looking at mapping resources to other areas of the curriculum in the a similar way.
Secondary SchoolsHome economics teachers involved throughout the development.
Suggested uses
– S1- S3 classes (Adapt for different abilities)
– Clear and concise messages – Diet, Labelling, Food Safety and Allergens.
– Catering Staff – Whole School Food Approach
– Cluster School Visits
CookinCastle
Online Interactive Game
8-12 year olds (enjoyed by all ages)
Food hygiene and Nutrition.
Suitable for smart board, desktop and tablets.
Leader Board- Awards for top class/school at different times of the year.
Let the games begin…
School specific personalised loginAdaptable to suit class
needs/time
Homepage The Kitchen
Meal Planning Cooking up a storm…
Results/Feedback Top of the table
Don’t forget about…Other FSA FREE Resources:
•Food Route: A Journey Through Food
•Eatwell Floor Mat
•Sack of Games
How can you get one?Send us a email with yours and your schools details-
Thank you for listening…