Hygiene resources
Resources to help you keep food safe and avoid food poisoning, whether in your business or at home.
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Bacteria Bite Business
The FSA's Bacteria Bite Business video demonstrates the importance of good food hygiene, focusing on the 4 Cs (Cleaning, Cooking, Chilling and Cross-contamination). This is now available to view online.
Food Hygiene Mission Control
Food Hygiene Mission Control is an interactive resource for children aged 7 to 14 and their teachers. Through quizzes, games and fact pages it educates young people about food hygiene issues. The teachers' section contains downloadable activity sheets for further teaching.
How to complain
Do you want to report an issue such as poor hygiene practice in a food outlet, or a trading standards issue such as mislabelling? Use our postcode search to find your nearest food enforcer.
Hygiene Guidance
Guidance notes for business on hygiene legislation, including the 2006 food hygiene legislation.
Hygiene legislation
Food hygiene legislation affects all food businesses, including caterers, primary producers (such as farmers), manufacturers and retailers. New legislation was introduced in the UK in January 2006. How it affects you will depend on the size and type of your business.
Scores on the Doors
It is very important that all food businesses obey the law and supply food that is safe to eat. Now, as a result of a new pilot project, customers in certain areas can see how well a food business has done on its last inspection. The pilot scheme is called Scores on the Doors.