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FSA about-turn on hygiene score reforms

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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has stepped back from controversial proposals to allow bigger food stores to run their own food safety inspections. The FSA had been considering changes that would have given the biggest food businesses control over the ‘scores-on-the-doors’ food hygiene ratings. But…

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