The Food Safety Enforcement team provide services to local citizens and to businesses in the retail, catering, residential and wholesale industry:

• Legal compliance inspections for food safety and food hygiene purposes
• Legal compliance inspections for health, safety and welfare at work in food businesses
• Good practice advice and guidance on food related matters
• Investigation and control of food borne illness such as food poisoning;
• Sampling of food and drinking water for safety and wholesomeness
• Training of food workers in good practice and legal compliance when handling food

Each year we:

• Inspect 1,500 food businesses
• Receive around 1,700 requests for service and over 10,000 telephone calls
• Investigate over 300 accidents and food poisoning incidents
• Take over 150 food & water samples

We do all of this across 3,000 local food businesses, 279,000 city residents and 3 million city visitors per year.

“Recent new food hygiene laws mean that a lot of the information about the hygiene laws on our site is currently being updated. In the meantime you can get up to date information on the laws affecting your business at the Food Standards Agency (FSA) website www.food.gov.uk/foodindustry/regulation/europeleg/eufoodhygieneleg/

More information

• Food Safety Enforcement Customer Contract</we (987kb)
• Food Safety Enforcement Section - Customer Satisfaction Questionnaire

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