Carrick District Council

The Authority had developed a procedure detailing the qualitative and quantitative monitoring of food law enforcement activities. However, this had yet to be fully implemented and needed to be expanded to cover the full range of food law enforcement activities. The procedure also needed to accurately reflect the internal monitoring that was being carried out.

In practice, there was evidence of quantitative monitoring both through the development and quarterly monitoring of the Authority's work programme and through monthly monitoring of individual officer's workloads. There was evidence of some qualitative monitoring of prosecutions, formal cautions, food poisoning outbreaks and food hazard warnings but there was limited documentary evidence of qualitative monitoring for other key areas of food law enforcement.

The Authority was participating in an inter authority audit scheme that had recently been developed and had taken part in past consistency exercises with other Food Authorities in Cornwall.