Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing Lynne Neagle, and Chair of the Food Standards Agency, Professor Susan Jebb, welcome the significant improvement in hygiene ratings for Welsh food businesses on the 10th anniversary of mandatory display of food hygiene ratings.
This page provides information on what a food hygiene inspection may involve. Please read all the pages in this guide to ensure you have the information you need to run your food business.
This guidance sets out how to display your food hygiene rating online and on social media in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This will ensure that you give your customers accurate information and can allow them to order with confidence.
How to apply for registration of a milk production holding and how we carry out inspections on dairy farms.
Legislation on animal feed applies to a wide range of animal feed businesses and activities. This page contains further guidance on key legislation affecting businesses involved with animal feed.
Shellfish production and how it is monitored and reported by us.
The way pigs must be tested for trichinella before entering the food chain.
How we audit your meat premises and what you need to know as a food business owner.
This report outlines the results of the 2022 FHRS Audit of Display and Business Survey. With the study conducted as the UK was recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic it presents an opportune time to capture how compliance and attitudes towards the FHRS have changed.
This chapter covers how food businesses displaying a food hygiene rating feel about the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS).
This chapter details businesses’ level of awareness of the inspection report letter and its content, and of the options available if businesses wish to challenge their rating. It also covers the proportion of businesses that report using the safeguards and explores the barriers to take-up.
This chapter begins by exploring awareness and attitudes towards the mandatory display of food hygiene ratings in Northern Ireland and Wales. It then covers the views which food businesses in England have towards the idea of mandatory display. The chapter concludes with findings around attitudes towards compulsory display online.
This chapter covers food businesses’ self-reported display of Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) stickers according to survey findings, including whether stickers are located somewhere clearly visible from outside the premises and (in Northern Ireland and Wales) whether stickers are displayed at all entrances.
Awareness of the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) is important to drive compliance with food hygiene standards. This chapter begins by covering awareness of the scheme. It then moves on to explore food business’ attitudes towards their food hygiene rating.
This chapter covers the findings from the audits of food businesses in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. It looks at the rates of display of stickers, where stickers are displayed, and whether the food hygiene rating features on the food business’ website or Facebook Business Page.
The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) was formally launched in 2010. The scheme is designed to help consumers make more considered choices about where they purchase food by providing clear information about the hygiene standards of food businesses found at their last inspection by a local authority’s food safety officer.
The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) is designed to help consumers make more considered choices about where they eat out or shop for food by providing ‘at-a-glance’ information about the hygiene standards of food businesses found at the time of their last inspection by a local authority’s food safety officer.
This report details the first wave of research since the Covid-19 pandemic, which presented serious challenges to UK food businesses in the forms of enforced closures during lockdowns, restricted trading conditions, staff absences and supply chain difficulties.
This chapter covers the findings of the audits of the display of food hygiene rating stickers in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) was launched in November 2010. The scheme is designed to help consumers make more considered choices about where they purchase food by providing clear information about the hygiene standards of food businesses found at their last inspection by a local authority’s food safety officer.
The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) is designed to help consumers make more considered choices about where they eat out or shop for food by providing ‘at-a-glance’ information about the hygiene standards of food businesses found at the time of their last inspection by a local authority’s food safety officer.