Agenda item

The Committee was informed that the Food Standards agency required all food authorities to have a Food Safety Service Plan to ensure that national priorities and standards were addressed and delivered locally.

Members considered the draft Food Safety Service Plan for 2015/16, which the Executive would be asked to approve at its meeting on 28 July 2015. The Plan followed the Food Standards Agency’s set format.

It was noted that the number of food businesses which were ‘broadly compliant’ with food hygiene law remained high at 95%. This figure had increased steadily in the previous few years from 83% in 2009/10. Officers continued to work with the 5% of businesses which were not broadly compliant in order to ensure that they improved their standards. 

The Committee was advised that the Council continued to support its two Primary Authority Partnerships (PAPs) with Exclusive Hotels, the owner of Pennyhill Park, and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.

RESOLVED to advise the Executive to approve the Food Safety Service Plan 2015/16, as set out at Annex A to the agenda report.