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About the Food Safety Service
The Borough of Fareham has approximately 600 commercial premises where food is sold, distributed, manufactured or handled.
Fareham Borough Council is designated as a Food Authority under the Food Safety Act 1990 and as such has a statutory duty to enforce the Act. Environmental Health staff working within the Food, Health and Safety and Licensing Team have the delegated authority to enforce the legislation.
Objectives of the Service
- To ensure all premises due for inspection are inspected in accordance with statutory Codes of Practice.
- To take appropriate enforcement action according to the risk involved and in accordance with the Authority's Food safety Enforcement Policy.
- To ensure all staff involved in food safety work are properly qualified and competent for the work.
- To respond to all food complaints and complaints regarding food safety within 2 working days.
- To respond to all food hazard warnings on the day of receipt.
- To maintain a food sampling programme.
- To respond to all cases of food-borne infectious diseases on the day of receipt.
- To provide advice to business on food safety matters within 5 working days of any request.
- To maintain a computer system that will give accurate and up to date information on registered food premises, inspection and complaint history and records of food sampling and infectious disease investigation.
- To encourage standards of hygiene higher than the minimum required by law.
- To liaise, co-ordinate and work where possible in partnership with other groups, organisations and agencies to achieve better standards of food safety.
- To determine all butchers' shop Licence and Vertical Directive approvals within 28 days of receipt of the request.
- To enable the provision of training for food handlers within the Borough (The programme for 2004 is currently being developed).
- To ensure all food businesses are registered.
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