Decision details

The Community Portfolio Holder presented a report seeking approval of a Food Safety Service Plan for the period 2016 to 2017, which would ensure that the Council was compliant with the requirements of the Food Standards Agency and the Framework Agreement on Local Authority Food Law Enforcement.

Council Officers had carried out 380 food safety inspections in 2015/16, with 50 new businesses included in the inspections, and had established that 97% of food businesses in the Borough were ‘Broadly Compliant’ with food hygiene law.

In 2016/17, officers intended to build on the success of the Food Hygiene Rating System and to maintain the proportion of food businesses which were “Broadly Compliant” with food hygiene laws to at or above 95%.

Officers had done a significant amount of work with the non-broadly compliant businesses to achieve the necessary improvements. Over the next year, the focus would be on sustaining the improvements in the businesses and continuing to take action in noncompliant businesses.

Resolved, that the Food Safety Service Plan 2016/17 attached at Annex A to the Officer report, be approved.