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.
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In this section...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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Find advice on health and safety at work (external link) - workplace safety guidance for catering and hospitality businesses - slips and trips in kitchens, contact dermatitis, manual handling, knives, maintaining kitchen equipment, ventilation and temperature
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Find Trading Standards advice for food businesses (external link) - leaflets with business guidance on food labelling and packaging, including the regulations on use by and best before dates
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Advice on environmental regulations (external link) - guidance for caterers and mobile food businesses on noise, air and water pollution, and disposal of food and catering waste, on the NetRegs website
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Advice on healthy catering (external link) - practical tips for caterers wanting to offer their customers healthier choices and provide nutrition information for consumers eating out
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Advice on food allergy and intolerance (external link) - guidance to help food businesses provide information to customers who need to avoid certain ingredients because of an allergy. Includes an interactive online food allergy training tool
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Search for local food producers and suppliers (external link) - an online directory from A Taste of Sussex to find local produce for your business, on the Sussex Enterprise website
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Discover the benefits of offering Fairtrade products (external link) - why offering Fairtrade to your customers can help your business, and what you can do to help make Eastbourne a Fairtrade Town
You are at: www.eastbourne.gov.uk/food
