Food incidents, product withdrawals and recalls
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How to report, respond to and prevent an incident, including how to withdraw or recall unsafe food products.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How to report, respond to and prevent an incident, including how to withdraw or recall unsafe food products. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- What a food incident is
- Product withdrawals and recalls
- Reporting a food incident
- Traceability, withdrawals and recalls guidance
- Important: References to EU legislation in FSA guidance
- Tools
- Undertaking Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Root cause analysis - single point lessons
- Insight into root cause analysis findings
- Protecting and defending food and drink from deliberate attack
- Our incident management plan
- Incidents response team phone number
- Video transcript
- Team Contacts
- Incidents response team
- Consumer protection team in Wales
Source and licence
Food Standards Agency
AttributionFood Standards Agency, ‘Food incidents, product withdrawals and recalls’ (updated 20 August 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026