UK: FSA triggers alert over ready meal glass contaminations
By Joe Ayling | 15 December 2006
The UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced a food alert for a host of own brand frozen ready-to-eat meals with rice, due to the possible presence of small fragments of glass.
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The UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced a food alert for a host of own brand frozen ready-to-eat meals with rice, due to the possible presence of small fragments of glass.

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