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Advice for Food Businesses

Starting up a Catering Business
Your first steps to running a catering business...

Find advice and publications in this section for catering and retail food businesses on food safety and hygiene, from the council's Environmental Health Officers.

One-stop links to other topics relevant to food businesses on other websites, including workplace safety, offering healthy choices, sourcing local and fairtrade produce, and environmental regulations on food waste disposal.

Business Help Getting Started

In this section...

  • Food Hygiene Rating Scheme - search for ratings, find out how the scheme works and what safeguards there are for your business, including how to appeal against a score, request a revisit or exercise your right to reply

  • Food Hygiene Guide and Leaflets - cleaning, cooking, chilling and cross-contamination - the '4 Cs' of food hygiene. Controlling E.coli O157. Personal hygiene and hand washing. Guides for ethnic businesses, mobile caterers and childminders who prepare food. Leaflets on preparing and cooking doner kebabs, managing chilled display cabinets, and vacuum packing food
  • Managing Food Safety - find out about food hygiene legislation and how to manage food safety in your business. Get resources to help you - Safer Food, Better Business packs for small food retailers, catering in restaurants, cafés and takeaways, catering for different cuisines, and care homes
  • Food Hygiene Training Courses - find details of local courses for food handlers and supervisors, run in partnership with Wealden District Council. Guidance on what you need to do to supervise and train your staff
  • Our Awareness Campaigns - Good Hygiene is Good for Business, our High 5 publicity event for top rated businesses in the National Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, our free Bengali language food hygiene training event, reducing accidents from dangerous catering equipment, and our Shake the Salt Habit scheme for restaurants and takeaways in Eastbourne

On other websites...

You are at: www.eastbourne.gov.uk/food

Safer Food Better Business

Safer Food Better Business

Safer Food Better Business packs can help you comply with the legal requirement for a written food safety management system.

You can download or order packs and use an online DVD guide in 16 languages to help you train your staff:

Contact Details

  • Tel 01323 410000