Running a food business: guidance and resources from the Food Standards Agency
Find our key guidance and resources to help you with your food business.
This page brings together some of our key guidance and resources to help you set up, run and grow your food business.
It includes information on food safety, hygiene, allergens, food hygiene ratings and more.
This page is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg)
Starting and registering a food business
Find guidance and support to help you start, register and run a food business.
This includes guidance on selling food from home, mobile, online and customer-facing premises.
Managing food safety and allergens
Find detailed food safety guidance, including information on managing allergies and food recalls.
Food hygiene ratings
Our food hygiene rating service helps consumers choose where to eat-out or buy food by providing clear information about a business’s hygiene standards.
The information here explains how food businesses can engage with and use the service.
Guidance for specific business types
Here you can find guidance for specific food-business issues, for example, those who:
- sell food without face-to-face contact with the consumer
- sell food for delivery
- provide food at community events as a business
- sell products containing glycerol