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Food Hygiene Guide for Businesses

Food Hygiene - A Guide for Businesses
Download the booklet Food Hygiene - A Guide for Businesses...

Guides, leaflets and videos for food businesses on the essentials of food safety, how to protect your customers and prevent food poisoning.

The '4 Cs' of Food Hygiene

Download the booklet Food Hygiene - A Guide for Businesses to find out about how to comply with the law and the '4 Cs' of food hygiene - cleaning, cross-contamination, cooking and chilling.

Download or order a Safer Food Better Business pack specific to your type of business to help you manage food safety.

Download Advice Leaflets

  • You can download guides and videos for caterers and food retailers from the Food Standards Agency using the link from this page.

  • You can download advice leaflets produced by the council's Environmental Health Officers in PDF format below. Our general leaflets for food handlers cover cleaning, preventing cross contamination, controlling E.coli O157, and the essentials of personal hygiene and hand washing.

  • Below you can also download our specific advice on preparing and cooking doner kebabs, managing chilled display cabinets, and vacuum packing food for butchers, small caterers and retailers.

  • In this section there are also pages with our publications for home caterers, mobile caterers, French market traders, farmers markets and childminders. Our photo guides for ethnic businesses have "right" and "wrong" pictures, with minimal text, either in English, or in Bengali, Chinese or Turkish.

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  • How Clean is Your Kitchen? [pdf / 43KB] Download our advice sheet for catering businesses on effective cleaning and disinfection of equipment and surfaces that come into contact with food. With thanks to the City of London Corporation in producing this advice.
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  • Controlling E.coli O157 - A Practical Guide for Food Businesses [pdf / 129KB] Download an advice leaflet produced by Wealden District Council Public Protection Team, used with permission. You should read this together with the standards required for food businesses in the full guidance factsheet E.coli O157: Control of Cross Contamination produced by the Food Standards Agency, using the Hygiene Guidance link from this page.

Safer Food Better Business

Safer Food Better Business Packs and DVD

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

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

Guides and Videos

including:

  • Food Hygiene - A Guide for Businesses

  • Food Law Inspections and Your Business

  • E.coli O157: Control of Cross Contamination
  • Food Handlers Fitness to Work
  • Temperature Control Legislation Guidance
  • Waste Cooking Oil from Catering Premises
  • Videos - a series of short food hygiene coaching videos on YouTube, and Bacteria Bite Business

  • Guidance on Food Allergy and Intolerance

Some leaflets are available in other languages:

Contact Details

  • Tel 01323 410000