Upmarket store Selfridges has been accused of potentially putting customers at risk and breaking the law by selling ‘raw’ milk. It is selling the milk, produced on an organic farm in Sussex, from a vending machine and insists it is hugely popular and regularly sells out.

The Atlantic was once a semi-respected magazine worth perusing, but has lately been diving to the food-news gutter faster than Dr. Oz. After too many stories on the electronic version with nappy headlines but little content, The Atlantic fully jumped the shark with its piece on the virtues of sprouts.

The board of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) will decide, during a March 20 meeting, whether to review current rules governing the sale and marketing of unpasteurised, or raw, drinking milk and cream after producers used novel sales routes such as the internet and vending machines.

The Board of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) will decide next week whether the FSA should review the current rules governing the sale and marketing of unpasteurised, or raw, drinking milk and cream. This follows developments in the sale of raw milk which have seen producers using new routes of sale for their products, such as the internet and vending machines.