Business Advice: Food Safety and Standards Compliance

Advice Options: Fee-based Service

Our new ‘fee-based' advisory service for food safety and standards, will offer a wide range of advice, including:

• Advice on premises layout, structure, facilities, equipment.
• Advice on food safety practices and procedures (e.g. on temperature control requirements, and on how the business could meet guidelines to control the risk of E.coli cross-contamination, where appropriate).
• Advice/support in developing a food safety management/HACCP systems and maintaining records that are proportionate to business.
• Advice on the requirements relating to the training, instruction and supervision of food handlers.
• Advice on the criteria considered under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, and the general requirements to be met in order to attain a high rating - helping new businesses get off to a flying start.
• Advice on/assistance with food sampling and the significance of any results.
• Advice on complying with food allergen labelling/information requirements.
• Advice on complying with other food labelling/ description/ advertising requirements.
• Advice on food compositional requirements.
• Approval of food labels/menus/websites/other advertisements prepared by the business.
• Food premises audits (‘health checks').

with the decision ultimately resting with your business.