Slough Borough Council: Food safety for your business

Food safety for your business

This information is intended as a general guide to help you:

Know what to do before starting a food business
Maintain your business and self audit your premises
Comply with the various food safety acts and regulations

The Food Standards Agency estimates that 5.5 million people a year are affected by food poisoning, the vast majority as a result of eating in a restaurant, café, takeaway or fast food outlet.

Food poisoning costs the economy, which includes employers and the NHS, at least £350 million a year.

Food proprietors have responsibility to:

Ensure that food is prepared and handled safely
Demonstrate how that food is handled and prepared hygienically

Hygienic and safe operational practices in the preparation of food:

Need careful planning and management as with any other aspect of business
Will improve your business and save you money

We've recently produced our first food newsletter. We want to let you know about some important changes in food safety law that will affect all food business proprietors. We're also about to launch a new food safety award and start placing the findings of food hygiene inspections on our website - this may have implications for your food business. Want to find out more? Read on…

Food Safety - July 2006 [ PDF ]