Food Safety

Our Food Safety Team aims to ensure all food served and sold in the City is safe to eat. It enforces food safety legislation in 1,600 food businesses from a greengrocer to a university college kitchen. The team:

inspects all food businesses to check standards of hygiene
provides advice to food business operators
provides food hygiene training courses
investigates cases of food poisoning
investigates food complaints

You can view the following documents about food safety:

food hygiene (England) regulations 2005 (73kB PDF)

summary guidance on new hygiene regulations (14kB PDF)

general food regulations 2004 (18kB PDF)

EC regulation 852/2004 hygiene of foodstuffs (113kB PDF)

the food safety act 1990 (22kB PDF)

safer food better business - how to use the pack (219kB PDF)

food safety - control, enforcement and prosecution (21kB PDF)

college balls code of practice (68kB PDF)

You can also find out more from the following external website links:

Food hygiene training

It is the responsibility of the proprietor of a food business to ensure that food handlers engaged in the food business are supervised, instructed and trained in food hygiene matters commensurate with their work activities.

Safer Food Better Business

Safer Food Better Business is a documented food safety management pack introduced by the Food Standards Agency to help small catering businesses comply with the new hygiene regulations that came into force in January 2006.

Page last reviewed 14 Nov 2008

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