Consultation
Food Law Code of Practice and Practice Guidance Consultation - England
England specific
Consultation seeking stakeholders’ views on proposed changes to the Food Law Code of Practice (the Code) and the Practice Guidance (PG) in England.
This consultation will be of most interest to:
- Competent Authorities - Local Authorities and Port Health Authorities
- food businesses and industry trade bodies
- third-party assurance organisations for food safety
- awarding bodies for environmental health and trading standards professionals
- Trade Unions and expert groups may also have an interest
Consultation subject
This consultation seeks stakeholder’s views on proposed changes to the Food Law Code of Practice and Practice Guidance.
Key proposals include:
- an updated risk-based approach to the prioritisation and timescales for undertaking initial food hygiene official controls of new food establishments
- enabling, in certain circumstances, an establishments food hygiene intervention risk rating to be amended following a wider range of official control methods and techniques, including those undertaken remotely
- extending the activities that officers, who do not hold an ‘appropriate qualification’ for food hygiene or food standards, can, if competent, undertake
- a clarification in approach to interventions at food business establishments that fall into risk category E for food hygiene
- removal of a prescriptive number of hours required for continuing professional development
- other amendments which do not amend policy, to provide clarity and improve consistency and keep pace with current practices
Purpose of this consultation
To seek stakeholders’ views on proposed amendments to the code and practice guidance.
The proposed amendments are subject to separate consultations in Wales and Northern Ireland
Consultation pack
England
England Code and Practice Guidance
England
England
How to respond
Please use the consultation response form to provide your comments. The consultation response form should then be emailed to CodeReviewResponses@food.gov.uk.
England
Publication of response summary
Within three months of a consultation ending we aim to publish a summary of responses received and provide a link to it from this page.
You can find information on how we handle data provided in response to consultations in our Consultations privacy notice.
Further information
This consultation has been prepared in accordance with HM Government Consultation Principles. If an Impact Assessment has been produced, this is included in the consultation documents. If no Impact Assessment has been provided, the reason will be given in the consultation document.