Katie Watkins Young

As a small food producer, you’ve built a product people want to buy. The next stage of your growth means proving to your trade customers that it’s safe and compliant. You’ve decided SALSA is your next step. Perhaps a buyer has asked for it, or you can see the doors it would open for your business. So, you download the standard and find pages of requirements, a choice of membership packages and an audit at the end, with no obvious place to start. This guide takes you through each stage of the...

Your food or drink product can be safe to eat but still get pulled from the shelves because of what’s printed on the pack. Labelling errors are the biggest single cause of food recalls in the UK. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) recorded 141 product recalls in 2025, and around a quarter of them came down to allergen labelling mistakes. Very few involved a contaminated batch. In most cases, the label either failed to declare an allergen, carried an out-of-date ingredients list, or hadn’t been...

What does it take to keep a food business safe and compliant? That’s what Katie Watkins-Young, founder of Beacon Compliance, explores in a recent episode of the What’s Your Stori? podcast.