The Food Standards Agency (FSA or ‘the Agency’) is an independent government department responsible for food safety and hygiene in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. As part of the Agency’s responsibility for protecting consumer interests in relation to food, key priorities are ensuring that food is safe, that it is what it says it is, and that consumers have access to an affordable healthy diet. Improving understanding of the relationship between food affordability and safety is important to the successful delivery of these aims.This paper, the fourth in a series based on secondary analysis of the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) Food and You Survey, focuses on food safety activities in relation to household income
