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Last revised: 21 April 2008

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New Food Hygiene Legislation

In January 2006 new food hygiene legislation and requirements came into force.

This legislation affects all food businesses including caterers, primary producers (e.g. farmers), manufacturers, distributors and retailers.

In brief, the main new requirement is that food businesses must be able to show how they ensure the food they make or sell is safe to eat and have this written down in the form of a food safety management system.

There is no requirement to use any particular type of food safety management system, so some businesses will already have a suitable system with little or no change.

Safer Food Better Business pack

For those who require more help and guidance, the Food Standards Agency has produced the ‘Safer Food Better Business’ (SFBB) pack, one aimed at caterers and the other specifically for retailers.

This pack has been developed through working with catering businesses and is designed to be practical and easy to use.

The packs are based on a simple series of fact sheets that tell you how to ensure that the major potential hazards can be safely controlled and a diary which can be used to record appropriate opening and closing checks and any problems that happened and most importantly what was done to rectify the problem.

Using this pack will help you to:

  • comply with the new regulations

  • show you what to do to make food safely

  • train staff

  • protect your businesses reputation

  • improve your business e.g. by reducing food waste

You can view or download the full 'Safer Food, Better Business' pack as well as guidance on how to use it from the Food Standards Agency website. (External link)

If you would like to order a hard copy of the pack you can contact either :

The Food Standards Agency 0845 606 0667 foodstandards@ecgroup.uk.com

Kennet Environmental Health 01380 724911 kennet@kennet.gov.uk *

* If you email us, please provide us with the details of the type of business you run so that we can determine whether this pack will be relevant to your business.