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Food Standards Scotland (FSS) today (19 October 2016) published its latest diet and nutrition paper ‘Diet and nutrition: update on setting the direction for the Scottish diet’, which highlights the need for urgent action to improve food and drink eaten outside the home for both adults and children in Scotland.

Food Standards Scotland acknowledges the soft drinks industry levy (SDIL) as a welcome measure that may drive further reformulation of soft drinks.

Connage Highland Dairy is recalling unpasteurised (raw milk) Organic Smoked Dunlop Cheese as a precautionary measure after product testing detected E. coli O157 in a batch of unpasteurised Dunlop cheese not yet on the market.

As of 5 September 2016, the Incident Management Team investigating the E. coli outbreak linked to certain batches of Dunsyre Blue cheese declared the outbreak to be over and in accordance with procedure, has stood down.

Errington Cheese has instigated a precautionary recall of Dunsyre Blue cheese from a specific batch E24 because it may contain STEC