Get food safety advice on barbecuing during the summer months, to avoid getting food poisoning.
Find tips to enjoy a safe BBQ, free leaflets to download, a video and interactive online guide, and a fun quiz Silly Burgers.
Safe Summer Parties and Barbecues
Make sure food poisoning does not spoil your celebrations while enjoying the outdoors.
The council's Environmental Health service has produced a leaflet with practical tips on summer parties and barbecues. You can read the advice from the leaflet in this section, or download the leaflet in PDF format below.
Video and Interactive Guide
You can also download a leaflet Beat the Barbecue Bugs from the Food Standards Agency website using the link from this page, in English or in other languages - Bengali, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Turkish and Urdu.
You can find out more about barbecue safety on the NHS Live Well website, watch a video and use the interactive online guide by following the links from this page.
Silly Burgers Quiz
Are you hot stuff when it comes to BBQ food safety or a silly burger? Give yourself a grilling with the Silly Burgers fun quiz, using the link from this page.
