Basic food business advice
Advice for new and existing food businesses.
New food businesses
Advice if you are starting up a new food business or taking over an existing one.
Advice on food allergens and intolerance
Food allergies can be harmful and even potentially fatal in extreme cases. It is vital that you take steps to provide information to customers who need to avoid certain foods (external link).
Food safety management
As well as having to make sure the food you produce is safe to eat, under regulations your food business must also show what you do to make food safely. You should keep written records of this.
Food safety training
Food handlers must receive supervision and be instructed and/or trained in food hygiene to allow them to handle food safely.
Food hygiene regulations and inspections
Regulations have to be adhered to and inspections of these legal requirements may be carried out by environmental health or trading standards officers.
Food sampling
Food sampling is carried out to make sure that food is safe to eat.
Food law and takeaways
Food law says that labelling, advertising and presentation of food, and the information made available about it, should not mislead consumers.
Harvesting of shellfish
Cockles and mussels are bivalve molluscs also known as shellfish, which feed by filtering their food from the water that they live in.
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Last modified on 19 August 2021