date:May 30, 2012
The FSA comments follow the publication of its Annual Reports of Incidents 2011 document, which highlighted an increase in the number of food incidents it investigated last year, including reports of contaminated or illegal food entering the food chain.
It investigated a total of 1,714 food related incidents in 2011 an increase on the 1,505 probed in 2010. Of these, 281 were cases of microbiological contamination. This was an increase on the 271 cases in 2010.
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