Guidance

Food safety for community cooking and food banks

Hygiene and allergy advice for individuals and groups preparing meals to share in their community.

• From: Food Standards Agency
• Published: 7 April 2020
• Last updated: 28 August 2026
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  1. 28 August 2026

     Fixed broken links for 'Good food hygiene'. Noted that the Think Allergy posters are from the FSA web archive. Updated to where the WRAP link text was from 'cooking' over to 're-labelling'. Checks throughout webpage have also had webpage links updated.

  2. 7 April 2020

     Added translation

Applies to England, Northern Ireland and Wales

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Hygiene and allergy advice for individuals and groups preparing meals to share in their community.