Mr Tallon said that by establishing an MHRA digital hub in Leeds, "we're strengthening our ability to collaborate with partners across the north of England – bringing regulatory expertise closer to the people, organisations and innovations we serve".
"At the moment it's being used as a platform to sell things that may not be safe. They [TikTok] do need to do more," he said, "There's a lot of people making a lot of money, great side hustle, but they're putting people at risk."Dr James Cooper, deputy director of food policy at the Food Standards Agency (FSA), which is responsible for food safety in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, said: "Wherever people buy their food, it needs to be safe and what it says it is.
"Food businesses in the UK must be registered with their local authority and follow food law. All food businesses have a legal responsibility to sell safe food and provide allergen information."The FSA website says that if food is sold online or over the phone through "distance selling" then allergen information must be provided at two different stages in the order process.This usually means providing allergy information in the online description and then also on the packaging so a buyer has two opportunities to check if their allergy could be triggered.
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Crouched in cold mud under a thin Spring rain, vineyard employee Élodie Bonet snaps off unwanted vine shoots with her fingers and pruning clippers.
"We want the vine to put all its energy into the shoots that have the flowers where the grapes are going to grow," she explains.Ms O'Neill said items ranged from Victorian lead soldiers through to Roman tiles.
"It's interesting to see what archaeologists did 40, 50, 60 years ago and what they thought was important," she said."It's lovely to look at it again and repackage it so it's available for the people of Gloucester and Gloucestershire," she added.
Volunteers must be over the age of 16 and they will support Cotswold Archaeology staff at the Archaeology Centre in Eastgate Shopping Centre.Between April and November 2024 visitors to Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire were invited to stitch names of women they felt should be celebrated on to a textile display called Virtuous Woman.