Surveillance plays a key role in generating the evidence base that Food Standards Scotland relies on to verify the safety and standards of food and animal feed sold in Scotland, and to identify risks to our supply chains.
We developed our surveillance strategy in 2016. This was based on a wider programme of work by the Food Standards Agency in Scotland (FSAS) to address recommendations made three years earlier by the Scottish Government’s expert advisory review of the lessons to be learned from the horsemeat incident.