Agenda item

Food Safety Service Plan 2020-21

Minutes:

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.

 

The number of food businesses which were ‘broadly compliant’ remained high at 96.4%.This figure had increased in the previous few years from a base of 87% in 2009/10. Officers continued to work with the businesses which were not broadly compliant in order to ensure that they improved their standards.

 

The report set out the performance of the food safety service team during

2019/20, including inspections, complaint investigations and sampling activities. The plan also provided information on expected demands on the service during 2020/21 including the impact of Covid-19 on the Food Safety Service.

 

It was stated when a food premise opened in the Borough it was required to be inspected by the Council’s environmental health team within 28 days from being registered. The business was then given its food hygiene rating accordingly.   

 

RESOLVED that the Food Safety Service Plan 2019/2020, as set out in the agenda papers be agreed.

 

 

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