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Use your postcode to find your local food safety team. Contact them to report food problems and hygiene concerns, or to get advice.
The food safety and hygiene regulations you must follow - the law, regulations
A food business is any business that: sells food cooks food stores or…
Staff training You must be able to show that your staff have the right…
You must manage food allergies when preparing and selling food. This…
This guide is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg). Use a reputable supplier…
This guide is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg). You can be inspected by…
Set up a food safety system based on hazard analysis principles: steps, document templates, toolkits and ‘MyHACCP’ online.
If you run a food business, you need to have a food safety management…
This guide is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg). The type of food safety…
Use the MyHACCP service to: create a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control…
Emails from the Food Standard Agency about problems with food on the market
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
How food hygiene ratings work, how to find a rating and how businesses can respond to or change their rating: appeals, re-rating and right to reply.
Your business must be registered if you make, use or sell animal feed or place former food products for human consumption in the animal feed chain
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export petfood to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export other animal by-products to Great Britain, the Channel Islands…
Request for a re-visit inspection
Identify and report serious fraud and crime in food supply chains, including drinks and animal feed.
Appeals
Business’s right to reply
Apply for your shellfish harvesting area to be classified by the Food Standards Agency in Northern Ireland.
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