Food Hygiene Advice

We provide advice and information to food business proprietors, food handlers and the general public.

Free Advisory Booklets

We stock various food safety advisory booklets which are published by The Food Standards Agency, other organisations and us, including:

Rochford District Council Publications

Booklet Name	Download
A guide to the preparation of packed lunches
Advice on the safe use of eggs
Barbecue safety
Food handlers fitness to work your responsibilities as a food handler
Food preparation and malachite green paper towels
Let's talk turkey
Advice to the catering trade on the use of boiled and fried rice
Allergy and intolerance (advice to caterers)
It's party time - advice on Christmas party catering
How to wash your hands
Hygiene advice for childminders
Safe ice for drinks

Food Standards Agency and Other Organisation Booklets

Booklet Name	Download
Catering from home safely
Eggs - what caterers need to know
Eggs and food safety
Eggs and salmonella - the facts
The Food Safety Act 1990: a guide for food businesses
Food law inspections and your business
Food hygiene  - a guide for businesses
Germwatch : good hygiene at home
Safer food, better business for caterers
Safer food, better business for retailers
Germs love to travel
Bugs like it hot
Assured safe catering (not downloadable)
Food handlers: fitness to work - advice for food business operators
While you are pregnant, how to avoid infection from food and contact with animals (not downloadable)
Nutritional publications
Food safety and hygiene publications
Food industry publications
Publications in minority languages
Labelling publications

The Food Standards Agency

The Food Standards Agency does lots of work to help ensure the safety of the food we eat, from the drive to bring down foodborne illness, to the regulation of pesticides and research into GM food. For more information see our related links below.