14 May 1998 FOOD WATCHDOG ‘MUST BE PAID FOR BY TAXPAYER’ FOOD safety is so important that its “fundamentally wrong” of Government to expect industry to fund the Food Standards Agency, a

conference heard today (Thursday). Expressing his personal view, Roger Manley, deputy chairman of the Food Advisory Committee, said the notion that Government must abide by its pre-election

promise and not increase taxes to fund the FSA was absurd.