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Food safety - your responsibilities
1. Food safety
If your business deals in food you must:
- make sure food is safe to eat
- make sure you don’t add, remove or treat food in a way that makes it harmful to eat
- make sure the food is the same quality that you say it is
- make sure you don’t mislead people by the way food is labelled, advertised or marketed
- keep records on where you got food from and show this information on demand - known as ‘traceability’ (PDF, 86KB)
- withdraw unsafe food and complete an incident report
- tell people why food has been withdrawn or recalled, eg a leaflet or poster
- display your food hygiene rating (if you sell food direct to the public)
Food additives
If you use an additive in food you must:
- only use an approved additive
- only use it if it is approved for use in that food
- the food additive doesn’t exceed the maximum permitted level (PDF, 170KB)