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When people buy their food, they want to be sure that the place they’re buying from follows good food hygiene practices. After all, those businesses that aren’t hygienic put consumers’ health at risk, from minor cases of food poisoning...

£300 per food hygiene inspection, per year? Not too much from the point of view of Northern Foods or Marks and Spencer perhaps, but it’s a lot for many small or micro businesses, and the vast majority of our food businesses are small businesses, yet...

A new Which? investigation reveals that, a year on from the horsemeat scandal, there is a huge variation in the levels of food standards nationally, with some UK authorities struggling to ensure their local businesses comply with hygiene rules. The...

Since January 2006 European food safety legislation has dictated food businesses in member states ‘self regulate’ their food processes under a HACCP based system. Now in the UK consumers are being urged by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to check the...

Businesses which provide food services need to have good standards of food hygiene. There are many benefits to having good standards of in your business, such as: Demonstration of legal compliance The risk of poisoning is minimised The chance of prosecution...