What it takes to feed a city well: How our work contributes to this aim — notably in matters of food safety and integrity including our project to raise Food Hygiene Ratings in the city; also in exploring city-level responses to food insecurity, notably emergency food aid and, finally, in considering climate change and its impact on both food security globally and locally, and regarding food safety.

2. we aim for all our children to enjoy safe, tasty, healthy meals . . . and eat them in good
company
Does this cake contain adulterated ingredients?
Is it safe to eat?
& how might we know?

3. we aim for all our children to enjoy safe, tasty, healthy meals . . . and eat them in good
company
tackling food crime . . .
updates on what’s going on
food crime: The Musical
Elliott Review Birmingham

4. we aim for all our children to enjoy safe, tasty, healthy meals . . . and eat them in good
company
food safety & the FHRS
Revealed: The Birmingham restaurants
and takeaways rated
ZERO for food hygiene
Birmingham restaurant Turners sees
hygiene rating graded good for the first
time in two yearsSee the best and worst food hygiene
ratings in Bullring Birmingham
Food safety chief says Birmingham
residents shouldn’t be told about dirt or rat
infested takeaways

5. we aim for all our children to enjoy safe, tasty, healthy meals . . . and eat them in good
company
food safety & the FHRS
setting out our agenda: what we’re doing
2015 Annual Meeting
Catherine Brown, Mark Rogers
+ our FHRS project
& . . .

6. we aim for all our children to enjoy safe, tasty, healthy meals . . . and eat them in good
company
“Given [the] wide range of demands on the Service and the
limited information provided in the latest Enforcement
Plan, auditors were unable to confidently establish
whether the resources currently provided to the Service
were sufficient to meet all the Authority’s statutory duties,
or what the impact and implications of any shortfall would
be, including potential impacts on consumer protection
and reputational risk to the Authority.”
FSA audit of Birmingham City Council
April 2015

7. we aim for all our children to enjoy safe, tasty, healthy meals . . . and eat them in good
company
“Given [the] wide range of demands on the Service and the
limited information provided in the latest Enforcement
Plan, auditors were unable to confidently establish
whether the resources currently provided to the Service
were sufficient to meet all the Authority’s statutory duties,
or what the impact and implications of any shortfall would
be, including potential impacts on consumer protection
and reputational risk to the Authority.”
11.5 FTE — 1.1M inhabitants
7607 registered businesses
~500 new food businesses per year
Birmingham City labs? Public Analyst?
issue #1
Fragility of the UK’s current food safety & integrity systems
FSA audit of Birmingham City Council
April 2015

8. issue #2
Food insecurity in the UK
drivers of emergency
food aid
we aim for all our children to enjoy safe, tasty, healthy meals . . . and eat them in good
company

9. we aim for all our children to enjoy safe, tasty, healthy meals . . . and eat them in good
company
issue #3: climate change & agricultural yields

10. we aim for all our children to enjoy safe, tasty, healthy meals . . . and eat them in
good company
issue 4: population & demographic change
Population increase puts pressure on food production
including on land availability
to meet expected demand, 70-100% more food needed
and there’s no more arable land . . .
P.S.It’smorethanland...agricultureneedssoil,energy&water

11. we aim for all our children to enjoy safe, tasty, healthy meals . . . and eat them in good
company
“food safety and food security
are interrelated”
Feast or famine:
Business insurance implications of food safety & food security
Lloyds of London (2013)

12. we aim for all our children to enjoy safe, tasty, healthy meals . . . and eat them in good
company
The Cumbrian floods story
The Mondelez tax story
P.S. It’s more than land . . .
agriculture needs soil, energy & water

13. we aim for all our children to enjoy safe, tasty, healthy meals . . . and eat them in good
company
The UK population is currently 64.5M . . . having been 30M in 1900
& 9M in 1800
The UK is food scarce: it imports ~40% of its food . . . in 1939, it
imported 70%
The UK is water-scarce: you eat 3496 litres of water everyday
The product range of four of the world’s top ten ‘food’ and beverage
companies carries standard-rate VAT in the UK*
The global world population has tripled in my life-time, and will rise
from today’s 7.5 billion to an estimated 10 billion by 2050
* In the UK food is VAT-exempt, except for products listed with zero or very low nutritional value

14. we aim for all our children to enjoy safe, tasty, healthy meals . . . and eat them in good
company
& . . . next steps for us

15. we aim for all our children to enjoy safe, tasty, healthy meals . . . and eat them in good
company
What’s past is prologue:
what to come in your and my discharge
The Tempest: Act 2, Scene 1