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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

Food Standards Scotland (FSS) has been part of a multi-agency Incident Management Team (IMT), chaired by Health Protection Scotland, which has been investigating an outbreak of E.coli O157 in Scotland. (E. coli O157 is one of a group of harmful bacteria known as Shiga toxin E. coli or STEC.)