Articles tagged with: Food Standards Agency
Meat fraud, genes and imports: FSA head Emily Miles sums up year which led to first Radio 4 Today interview
30 Dec 2023 Energy & Environment
Meat fraud, genes and imports: FSA head Emily Miles sums up year which led to first Radio 4 Today interview
Plus, drinking sherry on Christmas and experimenting on Christmas Day
Civil servants are getting less religious, statistics reveal
24 Aug 2023 HR
Civil servants are getting less religious, statistics reveal
Overall decline in belief comes despite increasing proportion of Muslim officials
'It’s a precious thing to doubt your certainty': CSW chews the cud with Food Standards Agency chief executive Emily Miles
06 Jul 2023 Brexit
'It’s a precious thing to doubt your certainty': CSW chews the cud with Food Standards Agency chief executive Emily Miles
Jess Bowie meets FSA chief executive Emily Miles to discuss the safety of what we eat, idealism versus pragmatism, and why a bit of self-doubt is crucial to good leadership
Read the summer 2023 issue of Civil Service World
26 Jun 2023
Read the summer 2023 issue of Civil Service World
DSIT perm sec Sarah Munby tells all, while we ask: Can ChatGPT make civil servants' lives easier?
'The biggest challenge for 2023? Tempering my ambition in the face of reality’: FSA’s Emily Miles looks ahead
15 Dec 2022 Leadership
'The biggest challenge for 2023? Tempering my ambition in the face of reality’: FSA’s Emily Miles looks ahead
There’s always more the Food Standards Agency could do, but it must first deal with its most pressing priorities, its chief exec says
'You need to be professional, trustworthy, and tolerate long hours inside the abattoir': what it takes to be a meat hygiene inspector
02 Aug 2022 Operational Delivery
'You need to be professional, trustworthy, and tolerate long hours inside the abattoir': what it takes to be a meat hygiene inspector
A huge diversity of people and roles make up the modern civil service. Stephen Holden was named the FSA’s Meat Hygiene Inspector of the Year for 2022. Here he reflects on 30 years ensuring meat is safe to eat and animal welfare is not compromised
Covid, post-EU checks and 'high-profile food incidents' – Emily Miles on how the FSA handled a ‘tough' 2021
29 Dec 2021 Brexit
Covid, post-EU checks and 'high-profile food incidents' – Emily Miles on how the FSA handled a ‘tough' 2021
2020 may have been a year like no other, but 2021 was a chip off the old block and relentless from day one. The Food Standards chief exec tells us about 12 more months of dealing with Covid as well as new challenges
‘EU exit is going to put us right into the spotlight’: Food Standards Agency chief Emily Miles looks ahead
23 Dec 2020 Brexit
‘EU exit is going to put us right into the spotlight’: Food Standards Agency chief Emily Miles looks ahead
2020 was a year unlike any other, with the coronavirus pandemic upending the work of government and changing how we live our daily lives. Senior figures from across the civil service tell us how the unprecedented 12 months affected them, and look ahead to 2021
Emily Miles on building upon the Food Standards Agency's legacy of science, evidence and data
07 Jan 2020 Brexit
Emily Miles on building upon the Food Standards Agency's legacy of science, evidence and data

As 2020 approaches, senior figures from across government reflect on their highlights and challenges of 2019, look ahead to the next 12 months and share their favourite festive memories
Defra’s Brexit chief to head Food Standards Agency.
15 Jul 2019 Brexit
Defra’s Brexit chief to head Food Standards Agency.

Emily Miles to head up watchdog from September after acting as environment ministry’s director general for EU Exit delivery