The results will also be made publicly available.
The decision was taken at a meeting to address how testing can maintain consumer confidence in the accuracy of food labelling, attended by food and farming minister David Heath, representatives of the FSA, and major food businesses and suppliers.
Catherine Brown, chief executive of the FSA, said: “I am pleased that we have been able to agree a way forward to maintain consumer confidence in the food that people eat. We need to move swiftly to get this work under way to reassure consumers.”
The FSA and the food industry will now agree a standardised sampling and testing system which will meet accredited standards and test to an agreed level of DNA.
Source: FSA
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