Food Hygiene

Preparing for your Food Hygiene Inspection

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Food Hygiene Inspection

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Who and Why

For more information

Responsibilities

Food Hygiene Rating Scheme

Check List

Preparation for Inspection

Appeals

Index

Who will be visiting?

Local authorities are responsible for visiting and checking your premises to make sure you are compliant with the food law and your food is safe to eat. They will look at the followng:

• Your premises
• Your food safety management system
• The types of food you make and prepare
• How you work

As a manager it is necessary that you ensure your staff are compliant in all the above areas.

Why are they visiting?

They maybe visiting for one of the following reasons:

1. Sampling
2. Food hygiene and standard inspection
3. A complaint follow up
4. Advisory visit

Inspectors have the right to enter and inspect your premises, and do not need to make appointments. Some premises maybe visited as regular as every six months.

Who and Why they Visit

You need to ensure the following:

• The food is safe to eat
• It is correctly labelled
• It is as advertised including quality
• You have traceability of the food - which is on demand when requested
• You can explain why a food is not availiable
• Withdraw any unsafe food and complete an incident report
• Ensure that how you store and cook your food does not make it harmful to eat.
• You only use approve additives and it does not exceed the recommended level
• You display your food hygiene rating

Food Safety

Food Hygiene

This is an important part of complying with the food safety You need to ensure you have a:

1. Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan
2. Ensure staff are adequately trained and up to date on Food Hygiene (this can be formal or inform
3. Ensure staff are adequately trained and up to date on Food Hygiene (this can be formal or informal)

Your responsibilities

Remember food safety is important!

• Your working premises
• The kinds of food you produce and prepare
• How you work and handle the food
• Your food safety management system

They will check to ensure that your business cover a range of food safety procedures which is based on the HACCP Principles They will also look into how you handle raw meat and ready-to-eat food, food storage and where, measures your business takes to make sure food is served or sold in a safe manner.

The inspectors will look at the following areas:

What will the inspectors look at?

You will be scored on a 0 - 5 rating. 0 -2 being seen as a failing grade and urgent action is needed A score of 5 means you are fully compliant with the the law, and is the best your can get. 3 is satisfactory and 4 good

What do they mean?

Food Hygiene Rating

In Wales, you are legally required to display your food hygiene rating. This can be in the front door or window of your premises.

Food Hygiene Rating

In order to help you prepare for your inspection we have included a handy pre-inspection checklist to help everything go smootly on the day.

Preparation Check List

Change of business details

Re-inspection

Right to reply

If any of your business details were wrong you can request in writing for these to be amended.

Request for a re-inspection can be completed once all the necessary improvments have been made. There maybe a fee for doing so.

The right to reply allows business to explain to customers how they have improved their food hygiene and if there were any extenuating circumstances on the day of the inspection.. This will also be published online.

Before making an appeal you should find out why you were given that rating to understanding the decision further.

Contact your local authority

If you still think the decision is unfair you can appeal in writing to your local authority.

Appeal in writing

If you are unhappy with your inspection and food rating you can appeal against it. Yo will need to completet the following steps

Appeals

Test your Knowledge

Will you pass an inspection?

Are You Ready Quiz?

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Complete the interest form below

Further information