06 Apr 2023
FSA launches consultation on developing a modernised food hygiene delivery model
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The FSA has today (03 April) launched a 12-week consultation seeking views from local authorities and district councils, food business operators, third-party assurance organisations for food safety, professional awarding bodies for environmental health and trading standards, trade unions and other interested groups.
In September 2022 the FSA Board endorsed the headline policy and principles to evaluate success for a modernised FHDM. We are now seeking stakeholders’ views on the following proposed developments:
- a modernised food hygiene intervention rating scheme, including a decision matrix, to determine the appropriate frequency of food hygiene controls based on the risk posed by a food business establishment
- an updated risk-based approach to the timescales for initial official controls of new food establishments, and for undertaking due official controls
- increased flexibility as to the methods and techniques of official controls that can be used to risk rate an establishment, including the appropriate use of remote assessment
- extending the activities that officers, such as Regulatory Support Officers, who do not hold a ‘suitable qualification’ for food hygiene can, if competent, undertake.
The consultation will close at 23:59 on Friday 30 June 2023.
Food Standards Agency
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