Good hygiene is good for business
Monday 25 January 2010
The Food Standards Agency is launching a UK-wide campaign today, to raise awareness among food businesses about the Agency tools available to help businesses comply with food hygiene law.
The tools being promoted include Safer food, better business (for use in England and Wales), CookSafe and RetailSafe (for use in Scotland), and Safe Catering (for use in Northern Ireland). These tools provide innovative and practical approaches to food safety management.
The campaign includes posters, which can be found at the links below, adverts in trade publications and on the radio, and promotion online. Running from today until Monday 1 March 2010, the campaign will target catering businesses that supply food direct to consumers – such as restaurants, takeaways and cafés.
Sarah Appleby, Head of Enforcement at the Food Standards Agency, said: 'The purpose of this campaign is to help to support the important work that local authorities do to ensure that food businesses comply with food law. It is also to give businesses the opportunity to achieve higher ratings for the rollout in 2010 of the national "scores on the doors" scheme for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the Food Hygiene Information Scheme in Scotland.'
Get the hygiene tools
The hygiene tools being promoted to businesses are available online at food.gov.uk/goodbusiness.
Safer food, better business, Safe Catering and the Bacteria Bite Business training video can be ordered by calling the FSA mailing house on 0845 606 0667. CookSafe (ISBN 978 011 702140 2) and RetailSafe (ISBN 978 011 702145 7) can be purchased from The Stationery Office (TSO) retail outlets, via the TSO website or through the TSO sales hotline on 0870 600 5522.
How to order the campaign posters
Local authorities wanting to take part in the campaign can order, free of charge, the A3-size campaign posters from the Agency's mailing house, quoting the relevant stock code:
English language versions:
- FSA/1514/0110 – Business campaign: Gastro bar poster
- FSA/1515/0110 – Business campaign: Chinese restaurant poster
- FSA/1516/0110 – Business campaign: Indian restaurant poster
- FSA/1517/0110 – Business campaign: Sandwich bar poster
- FSA/1518/0110 – Business campaign: Fish and chip shop poster
Bilingual versions (Welsh/Cymraeg and English languages):
- FSA/1519/0110 – Business campaign: Sandwich bar poster
- FSA/1520/0110 – Business campaign: Fish and chip shop poster
What are scores on the doors and Scotland's Food Hygiene Information Scheme?
Scores on the doors in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the Food Hygiene Information Scheme in Scotland, will provide consumers with information about the standards of hygiene in food businesses, based on the level of compliance with food hygiene law. Further information can be found via the link towards the end of this page.
Welsh version
To see a Welsh language version of this page or the hygiene resources, click here
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