The UK Food Standards Agency ( FSA ) carried out a risk assessment on the findings of a survey made in 2011 on risks due to migration of components from printing inks used on carton-board packaging, including mineral oils, into food, and did not identify any specific food safety concerns.

Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera.

In addition to regulating banks, insurance companies and financial advisers, the FSA has regulated mortgage business from 31 October 2004 and general insurance ( excluding travel insurance ) intermediaries from 14 January 2005.

The Financial Capability division of the FSA broke away from the organisation in 2010, and is now known as The Money Advice Service.

* proportionality: The restrictions the FSA imposes on the industry must be proportionate to the benefits that are expected to result from those restrictions.

On 17 April 2009, a whistleblower ( former FSA employee ) alleged that the FSA had turned a blind eye to the explosion in purchases of whole sale loans taken on by various UK building societies from 2005 onwards.

There were suggestions that the FSA stifles the UK financial services industry through over-regulation, following a leaked letter from Prime Minister Tony Blair during 2005.

The FSA counters that its move away from rules-based regulation towards more principles-based regulation, far from weakening its consumer protection goals, can in fact strengthen them: " Our Principles are rules.

" Accepting King's narrow concentration on price stability had resulted in disaster, the 2012 Financial Services Bill, in transferring the majority of macroprudential regulatory powers from the FSA to the Bank, will grant the Financial Policy Committee ( chaired by King ) the power to curb lending in booms, including placing limits on the public's access to mortgages.

FSA topics range from musical training to Archery.

Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, PC, DL, FSA, FRS ( 24 June 1831 – 29 June 1890 ), known as Lord Porchester from 1833 to 1849, was a British politician and a leading member of the Conservative Party.

Apart from Scotland which is under a very simple Food Hygiene Information Scheme, the FSA ’ s Food Hygiene Rating Scheme will be tested throughout United Kingdom.

Farm Security Administration | FSA photo of cropper family chopping the weeds from cotton near White Plains, Georgia | White Plains, in Georgia, USA ( 1941 )

The Roy Stryker Papers, including manuscripts, correspondence, and vintage prints from the Stryker-directed projects — Farm Security Administration ( FSA ), the Standard Oil ( New Jersey ) Co. and Jones & Laughlin Steel — are held in Photographic Archives, Special Collections, William F. Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville.

* 2006-TradeStation Europe Limited receives approval from the FSA ( UK ) as an introducing broker.

FSA was set up when the department was reorganized in 1994, incorporating programs from several agencies, including the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation ( now a separate Risk Management Agency ), and the Farmers Home Administration.

George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer KG PC FRS FSA ( 1 September 1758 – 10 November 1834 ), styled Viscount Althorp from 1765 to 1783, was a British Whig politician.

It operates under its own banking license issued by the FSA, separate from Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group.

Money deducted from an employee's pay into an FSA is not subject to payroll taxes, resulting in substantial payroll tax savings.

Participation in one type of FSA does not affect participation in another type of FSA, but funds cannot be transferred from one FSA to another.

The FSA in an internal report into the handling of the collapse in confidence of customers of the Northern Rock Plc describe themselves as inadequate.

The FSA has been held by some observers to be weak and inactive in allowing irresponsible banking to precipitate the credit crunch which commenced in 2007, and which has involved the shrinking of the UK housing market, increasing unemployment ( especially in the financial and building sectors ), the public acquisition of Northern Rock in mid-February 2008, and the takeover of HBOS by Lloyds TSB.

The FSA said " It is for the bank, building society or credit card company to show that the transaction was made by you, and there was no breakdown in procedures or technical difficulty " before refusing liability.

In 2007 the Financial Services Authority ( FSA ) fined the UK ’ s largest building society, Nationwide £ 980, 000 for inadequate procedures when an employees ’ laptop was stolen during a domestic burglary.

A member of the society is eligible to vote in board elections if they have the title of FSA, or if they have held the title of ASA for at least 5 years, and only FSAs can be elected to the board.

Fellowship is regarded as a sign of recognition as supporting and contributing to the purpose and mission of the society, and Fellows are permitted to use the post-nominals FSA Scot ..

This means that if, for example, a person is employed by a company from January through June and covered on their cafeteria benefits plan ( including FSA ) during that time, but does not elect and pay for continued coverage under that plan ( i. e., COBRA ), the person's coverage period is defined only as January through June, not January through December as one might think.

However, despite determining that there was a problem in the selling of PPI, the FSA has taken effective action against very few firms in the case of PPI and it was the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) that finally took on the wider implications role in the case of bank charges.

It is reported that in order to prevent such a situation occurring again, the FSA is considering allowing a bank to delay revealing to the public when it gets into financial difficulties.

In response as to why Sir James Crosby had been appointed deputy chairman when his bank HBOS had been highlighted by the FSA as using risky lending practises, Lord Turner said that they had files on almost every financial institution indicating a degree of risk.

For example, it has been reported that Australia's Commonwealth Bank is measured as having 7. 6 % Tier 1 capital under the rules of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, but this would be measured as 10. 1 % if the bank was under the jurisdiction of the FSA.

It is rumoured that the FSA is particularly concerned that the Co-operative bank is still behind schedule in the integration of its IT systems with those of the Britannia Building Society, despite the fact that the merger took place in 2009.

In response as to why Sir James Crosby had been appointed deputy chairman when his bank HBOS had been highlighted by the FSA as using risky lending practises, Lord Turner said that they had files on almost every financial institution indicating a degree of risk.

The Financial Services Authority ( FSA ) fined Coutts because of an " unacceptable risk " that the bank could have been handling the proceeds of crime for a three-year period up to November 2010 after failing to properly deal with customers classified as " Politically exposed persons ".

The Financial Services Authority ( FSA ) regulate warranties when they are insurance, and it is illegal to sell insurane without being regualted by them, but they say the ' Obligor ' kind of warranty is legal and not regulated by them:

* Section 59 states that a person cannot carry out certain controlling functions in a firm without approval by the FSA.

This principle is designed to guard against unnecessary intrusion by the FSA into firms ’ business and requires it to hold senior management responsible for risk management and controls within firms.

On 11 February 2009, FSA deputy chairman, Sir James Crosby resigned after it was revealed that he had fired a whistleblower, Paul Moore, who had warned of dangerous lending practices at HBOS when he had been in charge of risk regulation.

Upper-level exam topics for the FSA designation include plan design, risk classification, ratemaking and valuation.

The employee contributes to the FSA in small increments throughout the year ( for example, 1 / 26 of the annual amount if one is paid every 2 weeks ), but taken together, all employees of a company contribute the full average amount during any given period, and no real risk is incurred by the employer.

In response, the FSA now places greater supervisory focus on liquidity risk especially with regard to " high-impact retail firms ".

In December 2007 Norwich Union was fined £ 1. 26m by the Financial Services Authority ( FSA ) after customers with life assurance policies were put at a small risk of fraud.