UK: FSA Unveiled

In Britain the new Food Standards Agency has been unveiled amid much criticism over who will fund its running costs, estimated as being at least £100 million a year. Much of that will be funded by levying charges on the food industry, including both wholesale and retail outlets. Critics have accused the FSA of representing an extension of the so-called “nanny state” in which the government will tell people what to eat, an accusation strongly denied by the government.