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The revised Food Industry Guide to Good Hygiene Practice: Retail is now available from The Stationery Office (TSO). Produced by the retail trade, it sets out recommendations that will help meet the legal obligations to ensure food safety and is recognised by the Food Standards Agency.
The guide covers activities carried out by food retailers:
- Grocers
- Butchers
- Fishmongers
- Greengrocers
- Delicatessens
- Supermarkets (including in-store bakeries)
Also applies to businesses where food is only part of what they do such as:
- Departmental stores
- Food shops and petrol stations
- Newsagents
The main aim of the guide is to provide easy to understand and practicable advice on the best ways of complying with Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 as well as the national provisions of The Food Hygiene Regulations 2006. The use of this guide is optional and food business operators can choose to show comply in other ways. However, the Agency hopes it will prove useful to assist food retailers in meeting legal food hygiene obligations, as well as ensuring that high standards are achieved in food safety.
This is the sixth of the new Food Industry Guides to have been published and a list of guides by appropriate industry sectors is available on from the link below:
Use of the Guides are voluntary and there is no legal requirement for food businesses to follow the advice contained in them. Businesses may demonstrate compliance with the hygiene legislation in other ways. However, enforcement authorities are obliged by law to give due consideration when carrying out food hygiene inspections and, as such, the Guides contribute to the consistent application and enforcement of food law.
The Food Industry Guide to Good Hygiene Practice: Retail, is available from the link below:
The Food Industry Guide to Good Hygiene Practice: Retail, is available from the link below:
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Contact Food Safety
- Tel: 01803 208025
- Email: food.safety@torbay.gov.uk
- Fax: 01803 208854
Related Pages
- Food Safety
- Food Business Registration
- Food & Safety Bulletin
- Food Safety Inspections
- Food Safety Legislation & Regulations
- Food Safety Service Plan
- Safer Food, Better Business
- Smokefree Workplaces & Public Places
