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75,000 pupils gain qualifications in seven years, 15,000 more expected in 2022.

The Good Food Institute Europe works with scientists, businesses and policymakers to promote the benefits of plant-based and cultivated meat. In the latest of our post-COP26 conference blogs, the institute’s policy manager Alex Holst explains how developing consumer confidence through evidence-based regulation is central to its alternative protein mission.

In the second of our post-COP26 conference blogs, FSS’ Chief Scientific Advisor Prof David Gally discusses how climate change is already changing consumer behaviour, presenting both risks and opportunities for the food industry.

Shoppers are being warned of the serious health risks of drinking counterfeit alcohol this festive season, and being urged to look out for some obvious signs that products aren’t what they might seem.

Food Standards Scotland (FSS) is issuing further instructions to reptile owners, following an outbreak of human salmonellosis linked to frozen mice used to feed snakes and other animals and birds.