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Oct 4, 2026
BevHOST
So you, you do have an unusual CV for someone in farming.
BevHOST
You're a scientist, working, uh, NHS chief exec, government advisor, uh, a food standards agency.
BevHOST
So bringing those bits together, w- uh, which parts of your career have been the most formative, do you think?
Tim RileyGUEST
That- that's a great question.
23 MINS LATER
Tim RileyGUEST
The other one sorted morning sickness.
BevHOST
Yeah.
Tim RileyGUEST
And then also the very reason the, the Food Standards Agency came about.
Tim RileyGUEST
You know, we, we'd only just started to understand in the '80s that you could actually have proteins that didn't contain DNA or RNA, nucleic acids, genetic material, could actually be infective and reproduce themselves.
Sheila DillonHOST
Mm.
Sheila DillonHOST
I mean, what came out of your program with Susan Jebb of the Food Standards Agency was the effect of all this UPF stuff, food-like substances, as Michael Pollan called them, on public health.
Sheila DillonHOST
And the problem is we haven't, there's no joining up between the billions that it costs the NHS and the food system.
Dan SaladinoPANELIST
Yeah, yeah.
Belinda ClarkHOST
Okay, let's get the urgent stuff covered off first.
Belinda ClarkHOST
Did you see that DEFRA and the Food Standards Agency have issued a call for projects that are deploying engineering biology solutions to a range of applications relevant to our sector? Now, it's 200K projects, uh, lasting nine months, around topics like water quality, uh, use of eDNA, environmental DNA, um, veterinary vaccines, a whole range of things.
Belinda ClarkHOST
It's on the Business Connect website.
Belinda ClarkHOST
You need to act quite fast because I think the closing date is next week, but if you're developing anything using engineering biology that might be relevant, check that out.
ConnieHOST
Yep.
MickHOST
Which is confusing because there's also the Food Standards Agency.
MickHOST
We also got the FSA.
MickHOST
We did nothing to do with financial services.
Phil AgnewHOST
To find out where your food is actually from, you have to click the allergens and info button here.
Phil AgnewHOST
Here, you'll find a link to the Food Standards Agency website listing for the Bird Box restaurant.
Phil AgnewHOST
Click that, and you'll see that the rating is actually for Frankie & Benny's.
Phil AgnewHOST
You are not able to do multiple Food Standard Agency, uh, listings for multiple restaurants from the same location, which is why the Bird Box one links back to Frankie & Benny's, so perfect.
Ella MillsHOST
And there's also gonna be an emphasis on accountability.
Ella MillsHOST
Like, we know this isn't easy, but schools are gonna have to publish their food policies and menus online and monitoring arrangements being developed with the Food Standards Agency.
Ella MillsHOST
So theoretically, it should be easier for parents and government to see whether standards are being followed.
Ella MillsHOST
And so loads of you listening are often like, "How can I influence my school?" Well, this is going to make it so much easier.
Lavanya KalaGUEST
Hi, I'm Lavanya Kala.
Lavanya KalaGUEST
I'm the head of innovation policy at the Food Standards Agency.
Lavanya KalaGUEST
So we are the food regulator and I'm here in my capacity from the Food Standards Agency.
Lavanya KalaGUEST
Thank you.
Craig LedleyMODERATOR
Thank you, everyone.
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Lavanya KalaGUEST
So what I'd really sort of encourage is to kind of think about that right at the beginning.
Lavanya KalaGUEST
Engage with us early.
Lavanya KalaGUEST
We have lots of guidance available on the Food Standards Agency website.
Susan HumeHOST
Lady Hayman replied that funding had been announced for the construction of farm reservoirs as part of the response to drought, but the planning process did need to be improved.
Susan HumeHOST
The non-party peer Lord Krebs, a former chairman of the Food Standards Agency, looked to science.
John KrebsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In order to adapt to future climates and weather, we're going to have to develop new genetic varieties of the crops we grow, and gene editing will be a powerful tool to enable us to do this.
John KrebsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When I recently visited the Wells Borne Research Station, I saw field trials of gene-edited soya plants that will be suitable to grow in the UK.
Amber ReaHOST
A lot of these were self-reported cases by owners, but the jump was still significant and it did warrant investigation.
Amber ReaHOST
So years it did the responsible thing here and they notified the Food Standards Agency and Trading Standards before going public and they brought in some additional outside experts that included a toxicologist and a root cause investigator in addition to the nutrition specialist that they had already been consulting.
Amber ReaHOST
So what was the suspected trigger? What was the precipitous to all of this? Well, all of the recipes under suspicion contained buckwheat, somewhere around six to 7% of the formula.
Amber ReaHOST
And that ingredient was only added to these recipes earlier this year.
Karen DakinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, and then we share that information with the national lead for livestock theft.
Karen DakinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We work with trading standards and Food Standards Agency as well.
Caz GrahamHOST
Who steals sheep? What, what do they want them for?
Karen DakinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In the past, it's thought that it might be other farmers.
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