Food Safety
The safety of food is vital to each and every consumer. It is
also vital to each and every producer, processor, manufacturer and
retailer. Consumers must have confidence that the food they buy and
eat will do them no harm. The importance of consumer confidence
cannot be underestimated for business upon whom rests the main
responsibility for ensuring the protection of its customers.
Food hygiene legislation
New food hygiene laws were applied in the UK from 1 January
2006. They affect all food businesses, including caterers, primary
producers (such as farmers), manufacturers, distributors and
retailers. How the legislation affects you will depend on the size
and type of your business.
Our Aims
To ensure that every business in our District provides food that
is safe to eat, free from contamination and has been prepared in a
clean and hygienic manner.
How We Do This
- Acting on food alerts issued by the Food Standards Agency.
- Maintaining an up to date register of all food premises in the
district.
- Inspecting all food premises in the District, including
ensuring that there is an adequate Food Safety Management System in
place.
- Approving all premises manufacturing meat, fish, dairy, or egg
products in the District.
- Investigating all complaints about food sold from premises in
the District.
- Monitoring the movement of unfit food into and out of the
District and seizing, detaining and destroying as necessary, any
food found upon inspection to be contaminated or unfit.
- Sampling food sold from premises in the District
- Providing advice and guidance to businesses and consumers and
generally promoting food safety.
- Facilitating food hygiene training.
- Investigating reports of food poisoning and
gastroenteritis.
- Monitoring the District for imported food.