FSA proposes Changes to Food Law Code of Practice and Guidance
UK
Feb 21, 2025
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has proposed changes to the Food Law Code of Practice and accompanying guidance through a consultation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to seek the views of interested parties.
This consultation will be of most interest to:
- Competent Authorities - Local Authorities and Port Health Authorities food businesses and industry trade bodies.
- Third-party assurance organisations for food safety.
- Awarding bodies for environmental health and trading standards professionals.
- Trade unions and expert groups may also have an interest.
Key proposals include:
- An updated risk-based approach to the prioritisation and timescales for undertaking initial food hygiene official controls of new food establishments.
- Enabling, in certain circumstances, an establishments food hygiene intervention risk rating to be amended following a wider range of official control methods and techniques, including those undertaken remotely.
- Extending the activities that officers, who do not hold an ‘appropriate qualification’ for food hygiene or food standards, can, if competent, undertake.
- A clarification in approach to interventions at food business establishments that fall into risk category e for food hygiene.
- Removal of a prescriptive number of hours required for continuing professional development.
- Other amendments which do not amend policy, to provide clarity and improve consistency and keep pace with current practices.
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