Food and the law

... The safety and quality of the food that is bought is closely monitored and checked by trading standards officers and environmental health officers. There are many regulations and laws covering the composition and labelling of food products, chemical safety, food hygiene, control of foodstuffs and trading and marketing standards. Individual food businesses are responsible for checking how the Regulations apply in practice to them. They aim to ensure common food hygiene rules. The Regulations aim to set out basic hygiene principles and they let you assess the risk to food safety and then apply controls relevant to our own situation. Many Regulations are basic minimum hygiene standards which apply to every food business. But how they are applied still depends on the situation. For example, every food premises must be kept clean. But how they are cleaned, and how often, will be different for a manufacturer of ready-to-eat meals than

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