Agenda item

Food Safety Service Plan 2016/17

To consider a report setting out the Council’s proposed Food Safety Plan for 2016/17.

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.

 

Members considered the draft Food Safety Service Plan for 2016/17, which the Executive would be asked to approve at its meeting on 2 August 2016. The Plan followed the Food Standards Agency’s set format.

 

In order to be considered ‘broadly compliant’ with food hygiene law, a business would be awarded a food hygiene score of 3 or above. It was noted that the number of food businesses which were ‘broadly compliant’ remained high at 97%. This figure had increased steadily in the previous few years from 83% 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 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 2016/17, as set out at Annex A to the agenda report.

 

 

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