Food Safety
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Welcome to the Food Safety Team. Our role is to improve and enforce standards of food hygiene and health and safety in food premises within the Charnwood Borough.
We:
- Inspect local food businesses to enforce standards of cleanliness and good hygiene practices
- Investigate complaints about hygiene or contaminated foods (e.g. glass, metal, insects)
- Randomly sample purchase foods to test the quality and safety
- Investigate cases of food poisoning
- Run a Scores on the Doors Scheme in conjuction with other Local Authorities in Leicestershire
Scores on the Doors
Scores on the Doors is a scheme designed to allow public access to the star ratings awarded to all catering premises by Environmental Health Officers. This means that pubs, restaurants, cafes, schools and care homes will all be inspected and their star-rating will be clearly displayed on their premises and included in a national database.
Reporting a Problem
If you have comments or concerns about any food problem, please click on the link below.
Food Safety Functions
We have a food hygiene award to recognise food businesses who show a high commitment to food safety. Details can be downloaded below. Also listed are other food safety functions that we carry out.
- Food Safety Award
- Business Advice
- Food Business Partnership
- Infectious Disease
- Food Complaints
- Food Hygiene Training
- National Food Safety Week
Enforcement Policy (PDF Document 331.99 Kb.)
Sampling Programme 2006/2007 (Word Document 49 Kb.)
In 2006/07 the Food Safety Team are participating in a slips and trips campaign in food businesses. For further information click on the link below.
Personal Food Imports
Are you travelling abroad this year and planning to bring food back with you?
Make sure you know the rules on what food you can bring into the U.K
click on the links to find a full list of animal and plant products that you can bring back from your travels and answers to FAQs.
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