The law requires all food businesses to adopt a ‘hazard analysis’ approach to Food Safety.  In simple terms. This is a matter of food businesses closely examining what they are doing in terms of managing food and ensuring appropriate steps are taken to ensure that it is supplied to the customer in a way that it will not cause harm or injury.  So that we can assist businesses such as caterers, retailers and small manufacturers we have produced free guidance containing blank pages which can be copied and used as record sheets.

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It will be legal requirement from the 1st January 2006 for all food businesses to have what is known as HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) based food safety management system in place. This must be a documented management system However, the extent and detail of documentation will depend upon the size and nature of business.

Safer Food Better Business (SFBB) is a toolkit developed by the Food Standards Agency and the catering industry to help small catering businesses meet this legal requirement.

Use this link to find out more about how help is available in Devon Safer Food, Better Businessthrough the promotion of "Safer Food Better Business"

Link to Hazard Analysis Guide(, 141Kb)

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