Enforcement careers at the Agency
The Food Standards Agency exists to ensure safe food and healthy eating for all. Enforcement staff play a key part in this, ensuring compliance with food law and dealing with consumer groups, businesses, local authorities and other stakeholders.
Some staff have previous local authority experience, and all bring a range of learning and experience to bear in their roles. They are involved in emergency planning, visits and inspections, meetings with regional partners, intelligence gathering and policy development.
All this activity gives the Agency a credible and persuasive presence nationwide, and helps us to meet our objectives as a regulator. Consumers are protected from foodborne infections. Food businesses are regulated in a consistent, proportionate way and offered practical advice that helps them comply with the law.
Find out about some of our enforcement staff by reading the profiles below.
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John Barnes
I lead the FSA's Regional Presence Unit, part of Food Hygiene Implementation Division, heading up Agency teams working out of the Government offices for the regions.
Patrick Otto
I am a food law enforcement auditor in the FSA's Audit Branch. The branch carries out 'audits' of those local authorities in England involved in food law enforcement. This work contributes towards the Agency's core objectives: to protect public health from risks in relation to food and to protect the interests of consumers.
Philip Flaherty
At the moment, I am heavily engaged in helping to deliver the Agency's 'Scores on the Doors' pilot schemes.
Sam Hanna
I work on the enforcement side in Food Hygiene Implementation Division, and my job revolves around the implementation of the Safer Food, Better Business (SFBB) programme.