Forest Heath

The Food Service was broadly in compliance with many areas of the Standard.

Most policies and procedures had been introduced some years ago and the Service was actively reviewing these where necessary.

However, the Authority needs to ensure an effective approach to enforcement of the hazard analysis requirement and to record appropriate and accurate details of food law enforcement activity.

Follow-up Action Relating to the Requirement for Hazard Analysis

The Authority’s approach to enforcement did not take account of the need for a graduated response to securing compliance with the requirement for hazard analysis.

Businesses were seen to have repeatedly failed to meet legal hazard analysis requirements, without effective remedial enforcement action being taken.

Records:

Records in a number of areas were incomplete.

File records contained insufficient detail to provide an accurate premises history for subsequent inspections, to determine whether follow-up enforcement actions were appropriate, and to enable effective internal monitoring of the quality of enforcement work.