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FOOD PRODUCTION AND QUALITY

On 1st January 2006, Food Hygiene legislation changed and affected all catering and food businesses within South Cambridgeshire. The Food Standards Agency has produced 'Safer Food Better Business' packs in order to assist small catering businesses comply with the new regulations. Find out more from the Food Standards Agency website (This link will open in a new window).

At South Cambridgeshire District Council our key objective is to ensure that the food and drink sold in restaurants, takeaways, shops, pubs, hotels, food manufacturers, work canteens, street traders and made by home caterers is safe to eat and has been hygienically produced.

To achieve this we have a wide range of duties with which to safeguard the health of all the people living in, or visiting, South Cambridgeshire. The main thrust of our work is the enforcement of the Food Safety Act 1990 (This link will open in a new window).

In this section:

• Food complaints
• Food handlers
• Food hazard warnings
• Food production and quality
• Food inspections
• Food poisoning
• Food safety at home
• Food sampling
• Food team enforcement service plan
• Hygiene and safety training
• Restaurants and catering

• Food Hygiene service requests (This link will open in a new window) can be submitted online.
• Visit our Scores on the Doors (This link will open in a new window)(food hygiene star ratings) website for up to date information about local eating places in South Cambridgeshire

Useful links for further reading:

• Food Standards Agency (This link will open in a new window) - Provides information on UK food safety - news, regulations, research and other pertinent information.
• Food Safety News (This link will open in a new window) - If you want to keep up to date on new food safety and quality legislation, please visit the Food Standards Agency news Centre.
• Food Standards Agency food regulations (This link will open in a new window) - All Regulations that came into effect before April 1st 2000 can be found in the Archive of this website. Any new Regulations proposed after April 1st 2000 are available on this page of the website.
• Food Standards Agency food industry enforcement (This link will open in a new window) - Matters relating to enforcement in the food industry can be found on this page.
• IFST: Institute of Food Science & Technology (This link will open in a new window) - IFST is the independent incorporated professional qualifying body for food scientists and technologists.
• DEFRA (This link will open in a new window) - Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.
• The Department of Health (This link will open in a new window) - The aim of the Department of Health is to improve the health and well-being of people in England.
• British Nutrition Foundation (UK) (This link will open in a new window) - Latest news and facts on nutrition.
• Institute for Food Research (UK) (This link will open in a new window) - Biotechnology and biological science research information.
• UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (This link will open in a new window) - Important information on UN's activities on nutrition, hunger relief and agricultural development.
• World Health Organization (This link will open in a new window) - Nutrition and food security.