Enforcement Directory A–Z
The Food Standards Agency website is packed with information for Local Authorities, Industry and Enforcement. Our A–Z contains links to a wide range of topics.
A
About Enforcement
About Local Authorities
ACMSF report on the safe cooking of burgers
ACMSF report on botulism in cattle
ACMSF report on infant botulism
Additives guidance
Advice for caterers on allergy and intolerance
Agency Board meetings
Agency Support for LA Enforcement Activity: The Fighting Fund
Alerts
Allergen's information - best practice guidance on the provision of allergen information for non-prepacked foods
Allergens information - guidance notes and best practice advice on the allergen labelling legislation
Allergy and intolerance advice for caterers
Animal feed
Animal feed establishments, register of non-EU representatives
Animal Feed Law Enforcement Liaison Group (AFLELG)
Animal feed legislation and guidance
Animal feed premises register
Animal feed safety management training
Animal health, dairy hygiene
Approved natural mineral waters
Approved premises: Meat plants
Audit (food sampling) checklists
Audit (formal enforcement activities) checklists
Audit (full) checklists
Audit (Home Authority Principles) checklists
Audit (imported food/ports) checklists
Audit (internal monitoring) checklists
Audit (statistical monitoring) checklists
Audit feedback meetings with local authorities
Audit (food sampling) protocols
Audit (formal enforcement activities) protocols
Audit (full) protocols
Audit (imported food/ports) protocols
Audit (internal monitoring) protocols
Audit (Home Authority Principles) protocols
Audit (statistical monitoring) protocols
Audit Reports
Audit Scheme
Audit Scheme Pre-visit questionnaires
Audit Scheme Northern Ireland
Audit Scheme: food sampling audits
Audit Scheme: formal enforcement audits
Audit Scheme: imported food audits
Audit Scheme: internal monitoring, third party and peer review audits
Audit Scheme: statistical monitoring returns audits
Audit Scheme Scotland
Audit Scheme Wales
Audit questions and answers
Avian flu (bird flu) update
Authenticity research and survey work
B
'Bacteria Bite Business' video
Bakers, Summary Guidance: Meat Products Regulations 2003
Basmati rice – UK code of practice
Beef Bones Regulations Guidance Notes
Better training for safer food (Commission initiative)
Better regulation initiatives
Bird flu (avian flu) update
Board Meetings
Board Members
Border Inspection Post (BIP) manual
Businesses: incident form for food and feed withdrawals and recalls
Butcher, Summary Guidance: Meat Products Regulations 2003
C
Campaign: Local authority initiatives
Caterers: advice on allergy and intolerance
Central referencing system for FSA correspondence to LAs
Changes to Local Authority Enforcement (CLAE) project
Checklists, food sampling audit
Checklists, full audit
Checklists, formal enforcement activities audit
Checklists, Home Authority Principles audit
Checklists, imported food/ports audit
Checklists, internal monitoring audit
Checklists, statistical monitoring audit
Cheese recovery: Guidance for UK dairy industry and local authorities
CLAE (Changes to Local Authority Enforcement) project
Clean Cattle and Meat Safety Scheme: HACCP
Clean livestock guidance
Cleansing and disinfection facilities for livestock vehicles at full throughput red meat slaughterhouses Guidance Notes
Clear Food Labelling
Cocoa and chocolate products Guidance Notes
Code of Practice, Feed Law
Code of Practice, Food Law (March 2006), England
Code of Practice, Food Law (June 2006), Northern Ireland
Code of Practice, Food Law (September 2006), Scotland
Code of Practice, Food Law (August 2006), Wales
Codex
Committees
Communications data
Concordat: Central and Local Government Enforcement
Condensed Milk and Dried Milk (England) Regulations 2003 Guidance Notes
Consultations
Consumer Attitudes Survey 2002 (enforcers summary): Research
Consumer Attitudes Survey 2003 (enforcers summary): Research
Contaminants in Food (England) Regulations Guidance note
Cooksafe
Correspondence sent to all local authorities by FSA
Criteria for the use of the terms Fresh, Pure, Natural etc.
D
Dairy hygiene inspections
Declarations issued under Regulation 33 of the Official Feed and Food Controls Regulations
Distance Selling - Guidance
E
Eat Safe Award Scheme
Edible co-products and animal by-products guidance
Enforcement, About
Enforcement activity data
Enforcement committees
Enforcement Liaison Group (ELG)
Enforcement strategy
Enforcement Stakeholder Forum
Environmental Health Officer: how to find one and complain about a food safety issue
ERTS in the UK, list of
EU Official Feed and Food Controls regulation: Guidance for enforcement authorities
European legislation
External links to enforcement-related websites
F
Feed
Feed establishments in third countries, register of representatives
Feed hygiene regulation (183/2005): Guidance for farmers
Feed Law Code of Practice
Feed Law Enforcement Liaison Group (AFLELG)
Feed legislation and guidance
Feed premises register
Feeding Stuffs (England) Regulations 2005 Guidance Notes
Fighting Fund: Agency Support for LA Enforcement Activity
Find a local authority: search by postcode, street or town
Fish Labelling Regulations 2003 Guidance Notes
Fishery Products Charges Regulations 2007: Guidance for enforcement authorities
Food Additives Legislation Guidance Notes
Food Alerts
Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) Missions
Food assurance schemes Guidance Notes
Food Chain Strategy: Research Programme
Food Champion Awards
Food Contact Materials
Food Contact Materials and Articles Legislation Guidance Notes
Food Control Laboratories UK
Food for Particular Nutritional Uses: Guidance Notes.
Food Labelling Regulations Guidance Notes
Food Law Code of Practice (March 2006), England
Food Law Code of Practice (June 2006), Northern Ireland
Food Law Code of Practice (September 2006), Scotland
Food Law Code of Practice (August 2006), Wales
Food Fraud Task Force
Food fraud database
Food hygiene legislation
Food incidents guidance
Food Law Enforcement: Research Programme
Food Law Guide
Food Liaison Groups
Food poisoning: find your nearest food safety enforcer
Food Premises Survey 2005
Food Regulation Statement of Intent: Strengthening the Central/Local Government Partnership'
Food safety management
Food sampling audits
Food sampling checklist
Food sampling protocols
Food sampling: Summary Report on Focused Audit Programme
Food sampling video for enforcement officers
Food sampling: working group
Food Standards Act 1999 (The)
Food Standards Agency Guidance Notes on Articles 14, 16, 18 and 19 of the General Food Law Regulation (EC) 178/2002
Food Standards Sampling Co-ordination Working Group
Food supplements
Food Supplements Regulations 2003: Guidance notes
Food supplements: label advisory statements and suggested reformulations
Food Surveillance System (FSS)
Food Surveys
Food: The Local Vision – publication and website
Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) Missions
Formal enforcement audits
Framework Agreement
Framework Agreement Sub Group (FASG)
Fraud database
Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars (England) Regulations 2003 Guidance Notes
FSA News newsletter
FSS (Food Surveillance System)
G
General Food Law Regulation (EC) 178/2002
GM food and feed, and traceability and labelling of GMOs: Guidance notes on the regulations
Good practice
Grants for local authorities: Fighting Fund
Guidance on allergen management and consumer information
Guidance on completing monitoring form
Guidance on the 2006 food hygiene legislation
Guidance on the use of the terms 'vegetarian' and 'vegan' in food labelling
H
HACCP: Clean Cattle and Meat Safety Scheme
HACCP: implementation strategy updates
HACCP: Meat plants
HACCP: Meat Plant newsletters
HACCP: Specialist Cheesemakers Initiative
HACCP: meat plant training
Hampton Review and the Agency
Honey Regulations 2003 Guidance Notes
How to apply for approval or registration under new EC Feed Hygiene Regulation (183/2005)
How to complain about a food safety or food standards issue
Hygiene campaign website: Safer food, better business
Hygiene legislation: new rules from 1 January 2006
Hygiene legislation: background to new rules
I
Illegal Meat Guidance Notes
Import of food from third countries: guidance for food authorities
Imported food
Imported food focused audit programme
Imported food: benchmarking the port health function
Imported food: Border Inspection Post (BIP) manual
Imported food: Central Guidance Documents
Imported food: foodstuffs with current EU restrictions
Imported food: importing live animals and animal products
Imported Food: information for enforcement authorities
Imported food Control Resource Pack
Imported food leaflet for traders
Imported food: Official Veterinary Surgeons (OVS) Notes
Imports of products of non-animal origin: Guidance for businesses
Incident form for food and feed withdrawals and recalls
Incidents – Principles for preventing and responding to food incidents
Industry publications
Ingredient declaration of compound feedingstuffs by percentage weight of inclusion
Internal monitoring, third party and peer review focused audits
Irradiated food supplements enforcement exercise
J
Jam and Similar Products (England) Regulations 2003 Guidance Notes
Jobs in the Food Standards Agency
Jobs in the Meat Hygiene Service
K
L
Labelling and Composition of Meat Products Guidance Notes
LAEMS (Local Authority Enforcement Monitoring System)
Law Guide, Food
Legislation, EU
Letters sent to all local authorities by FSA
Licences for meat plants
Local Area Agreements (LAAs)
Local authorities and the Agency
Local authority audits, see "Audit"
Local authority initiatives: campaign
Local Authority Enforcement Activity Reports
Local Authority Enforcement Monitoring System (LAEMS)
Local authority: find contact details of the one nearest you
Long term classification of shellfish harvesting areas
Lot Marking Regulations Guidance Notes
Low cost training for feed and food law enforcement officers
M
Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2005
Meat Cutting Guidance
Meat Guidance
Meat Hygiene Policy Forum
Meat Hygiene Service
Meat plants: approved premises
Meat plants: HACCP
Meat Plant HACCP newsletters
Meat Plants: Licences
Meat Products Regulations 2003: Bakers Summary guidance
Meat Products Regulations 2003: Butchers Summary guidance
Mineral waters, approved
Minority language publications
Monitoring form: guidance
Monitoring form: review of system
Monitoring Matters newsletter
Mycotoxins in foodstuffs sampling advice
N
Natural Mineral Water, Spring Water and Bottled Drinking Water (England) Regulations 2007
Natural Mineral Water, Spring Water and Bottled Drinking Water Guidance notes
Natural Mineral Water, Spring Water and Bottled Drinking - list of recognised UK natural mineral waters
National Control Plan for the UK
National register of feed premises
New food business: food safety management advice for caterers
New food business: starting up (advice and guidance for running a catering business)
New vision for food law enforcement
Newsletter: FSA News
Newsletter: Meat Plant HACCP
Newsletter: Monitoring Matters
Newsletter: New vision
Non-permitted colours in spices: Guidance note
Notification of Medical Foods Guidance Notes
Nutritional Claims in Food Labelling and Advertising Guidance Notes
Nutritional Labelling Guidance Notes
O
Official Control of Foodstuffs data
Official feed and food controls regulation
Official Feed and Food Controls: guidance for enforcement authorities
Official Feed and Food Controls: guidance on expenses arising from 'additional official controls'
Official Veterinary Surgeons (OVS) Notes on import conditions
Officially Tuberculosis-Free status and dairy hygiene legislation: Guidance notes for England
Origin Labelling Guidance Notes
Over Thirty Months rule
P
Para red dye
Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2005 Guidance Notes
Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2006: Guidance notes
Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2006: Guidance notes
Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Lid Gasket) Regulations 2007: Guidance note
Potential contamination of on-farm water supplies with nitrofurans guidance
Pre-visit questionnaires (Audit Scheme)
Press Releases
Principles for preventing and responding to food incidents
Private Slaughter of Livestock Guidance Notes
Protecting Consumers: The Food Standards Agency and Regulation: workshop
Protocols, food sampling audit
Protocols, formal enforcement activities audit
Protocols, full audit
Protocols, Home Authority Principles audit
Protocols, imported food/ports audit
Protocols, internal monitoring audit
Protocols, statistical monitoring audit
Public Analysts: Food Control Laboratories UK
Public Analysts: Samples submitted to
Publications: full FSA publication list
Q
Q and A notes for enforcement authorities on new EU Official Feed and Food Controls Regulation
Q and A on how the FSA audit the food law enforcement work of local authorities
Quantitative Ingredient Declarations (QUID) Guidance Notes
R
Recall and withdrawal of food and feed: incident form
Referenced letters sent to all local authorities by FSA
Register of feed premises
Registers of letters to local authorities from FSA
Register of local authority initiatives
Register of third country feed establishment representatives
Regulation
Regulatory Impact Assessments
Removal of Dairy Hygiene Inspection Charge Guidance Notes
Reports of Local Authority Food Law Enforcement Activity in UK
Research: Consumer Attitudes Survey 2002 (enforcers summary)
Research: Consumer Attitudes Survey 2003 (enforcers summary)
Research: food establishments survey 2007
Research Programme: Food Law Enforcement
Research Programme: Food Chain Strategy
Research Programme: Food Surveys
Rogers' review
Role of local authorities
S
Safer food better business (SFBB) website
Safer food better business (SFBB) pack
Safer food better business (SFBB) progress evaluation form
Safer food better business (SFBB) toolkit
Safer food better business (SFBB) toolkit: training
Samples submitted to public analysts
Sampling audits
Sampling guidance
Sampling guidance for food standards and feedingstuffs
Sampling of food checklist
Sampling of food protocols
Sampling of food: Summary Report on Focused Audit Programme
Scottish Food Enforcement Liaison Committee (SFELC)
Scores on the Doors
Search for a local authority by postcode, street or town
Seminar: Food Law Enforcement, 'Learning from Others'
Shellfish
Shellfish harvesting areas and long term classification
Smokies (skin-on sheep meat)
Specialist Cheesemakers Initiative: HACCP
Specified Sugar Products Regulations 2003 Guidance Notes
Statistical monitoring returns audits
Status and labelling of 1% fat milk as a food ingredient
Student placement scheme for Environmental Health Practitioners and Trading Standards Officers
Sudan dyes
Sudan dyes: products known to be affected to date
Sudan dyes in chilli imported from India: Guidance notes
Supplements, food
Survey of hygiene standards in food premises 2005
Survey of hygiene standards in food establishments 2007
Sweeteners in Food (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003 Guidance Notes
T
Temperature control legislation in the UK
Third country feed establishments, register of representatives
Toolkit for Safer food better business (SFBB)
Trading Standards Officer: how to find one and complain about a food standards issue
Training: animal feed safety management
Training: 'Better training for safer food' Commission initiative
Training: HACCP in meat plants
Training: low cost training for feed and food enforcement officers
Training: Safer food better business (SFBB) toolkit
U
Undesirable substances in animal feed
Updated list of commercial names for fish
Updates on HACCP implementation strategy
Use by date Guidance Notes
V
W
Waste cooking oil from catering premises
Wine Standards – Guidance on the movement of wine into and within the EU
Wine Standards – Guidance on wine standards due diligence criteria
Wine Standards – Guidance on wine standards for local authorities
Wine Standards – Guide to EU wine regulations for growers and producers
Withdrawal and recall of food and feed: incident form for businesses