Newsletters - Back Issues:

The Healthy Distance Food Safety Newsletters are published approximately quarterly and provide topical and practical information for the food trade. Those who complete the request form on the Healthy Distance Website receive the Newsletter free of charge. As time has gone by the number of topics covered in the Newsletters has increased and these can be a useful source of information for food businesses. Below is an index for the back issues which can be accessed from this page.


No. 12 Autumn 2007
  1. 1 Out of date food - Publicity and Prosecution
  2. 2 Regulation Creep - Over Implementation of Food Hygiene Training Requirements
  3. 3 E. Coli Outbreak in Wales
  4. 4 Food Alergies
  5. 5 Food Hygiene Prosecution - Big Names
  6. 6 Scores on the Doors
  7. 7 Food Advice to Community Groups
  8. 8 Mice Keep Olympic Athletes Safe
No. 11 Summer 2006
  1. Scores on the doors - food hygiene information for the consumer
  2. Chocolate Hell
  3. Food Hygiene Guide New Language Translations
  4. Sick As A Parrot
  5. E. Coli - It's Back
  6. Eggs, Some bad News
No. 10 Spring 2006
  1. New Food Hygiene Regulations - HACCP
  2. New Food Hygiene Regulations - Other Requirements
  3. Scores on the Doors - A New Development
  4. Jail Sentance for Takeaway Owner
  5. Bird Flu
  6. Eggs, Some Good News
  7. E. Coli Outbreaks in Wales
No. 9 Summer/Autumn 2005
  1. HACCP
  2. Score on the doors - naming and shaming poor food businesses
  3. Eggs - costly failure to review risks
  4. Sudan 1 and Para Red illegal dyes in food
  5. Number of food poisoning cases falls
  6. Expensive food safety failure
No. 8 Winter 2004/2005
  1. Glass contamination
  2. Honey poisoning
  3. Spanish eggs - a continuing problem
  4. Kiwi fruit - allergy risk
  5. Eggspensive result for sandwich operator
  6. Salad warning
No. 7 Summer 2004
  1. Food traceability
  2. Opium soup - junkie food
  3. Eggs and salmonella
  4. Dictator threatened by fish - Fugu fish
  5. Wild birds an important reservoir of food poisoning bacteria
  6. Risk from washing raw chicken
No. 6 Spring 2004
  1. E. numbers, additives and curry (includes reference to monosodium glutamate, Kwok’s disease and Chinese restaurant syndrome)
  2. Lies, damned lies and inspection statistics
  3. New food hygiene regulations
  4. Flying frog salad
  5. Food hygiene training is good for you
  6. Dirty restaurants - the public’s view
No. 5 Winter 2003/2004
  1. Chemical food poisoning
  2. Poor food companies to be named and shamed?
  3. A holiday to remember. Food poisoning on cruise liners
  4. Eggs and food poisoning
  5. Advice for Halal food businesses
  6. New food hygiene regulations in 2006?
No. 4 Autumn 2003
  1. Raw meat dishes
  2. Contaminated chicken - good news
  3. Harmonisation of food standards across EU
  4. Your cleaning method is pants!
  5. Global warming - a food poisoning risk
  6. More food hygiene inspections likely
No. 3 Summer 2003
  1. Food Allergies
  2. Nursery death - milk protein allergy
  3. Information on food intolerance and allergy
  4. Kiwi fruit - another cause for concern?
  5. Campylobacter in poultry
  6. Takeaway food businesses
  7. Do we really want safer food?
No. 2 Spring 2003
  1. Salmonella in eggs
  2. Guidance to enforcement officers on Halal food
  3. £16,000 - The cost of two raw chicken portions
  4. Licensing of butchers a success
  5. Ice Cube risk
  6. Chemical Food Poisoning
No. 1 Winter 2002
  1. Draft Food Hygiene Regulations
  2. Hand washing failures