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Dr David Jukes, The University of Reading, UK

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Food Law News - UK - 2017

FSA Enforcement Letter (ENF/E/17/070), 9 November 2017

ENFORCEMENT - Revised Food Law Practice Guidance Published

Summary: The Food Standards Agency has published the revised Food Law Practice Guidance, which comes into force today.

The Food Standards Agency has published the revised Food Law Practice Guidance (England), which comes into force today see https://www.food.gov.uk/enforcement/codes-of-practice/food-law-practice-guidance-england

The Guidance updates and replaces the previous Practice Guidance issued in October 2015.

The main changes to the Practice Guidance are summarised in the Annex to this letter [See list below], but primarily the Practice Guidance has been amended in the following ways:

Before the revision, the Food Standards Agency carried out a survey of the Food Hygiene Focus Group and the Food Standards and Labelling Focus Group on the content and structure of the Practice Guidance, and the opinions expressed were taken into consideration in the production of the guidance.

Food Law Practice Guidance (England) - November 2017

A copy of the revised Code is available on this site (Click on image)

Revised Food Law Practice Guidance - summary of changes

Code section

Summary of changes

Chapter 2.2.4 National Food Crime Unit

Addition of new section

Chapter 3.2.1 Registration of Food Establishments 

Added text about food business establishments where no food is present on the premises, e.g. some Head Offices    

Chapter 3.2.6.4 Food brokers

Addition of material on guidance on food brokers

Chapter 3.5.5 Internal Monitoring

Additional text to reflect updated policy

Chapter 4.5 Known qualifications with restrictions 

Updating of table on Equivalent qualifications for Food Hygiene at the level of Primary Production 

Chapter 5.3.1.2 Flexibility and HACCP monitoring

Update in the light of revised wording in the Code of Practice  

Chapter 5.3.5.2 Frequency of inspections at the level of primary production   

Material added to reflect current review of frequency of inspections at the level of primary production

Chapter 5.4.3 Catering Waste

Section added on catering waste requirements of Regulation (EC) 852/2004  

Chapter 5.5.2.4 Imports – early warning system

Section added on Imports Early Warning system to protect UK consumers from the risks that may be associated with imported foods   

Chapter 7.2.3 Prosecutions

Addition of section  

Chapter 7.3.12 Model form - The Fish Labelling Regulations 2013 – Regulation 7 - Improvement Notice 

Addition of model notice

Chapter 8.1.6 Notification of classified live bivalve mollusc production 

Additional detail about classification requirements in Regulation (EC) 854/2004  

Chapter 8.3.8 Less than thoroughly cooked burgers

Material added about extra approval requirements for establishments supplying minced meat (MM) and/or meat preparations (MP) intended to be eaten less than thoroughly cooked (LTTC) to be approved and on guidance on LTTC burgers.  

Chapter 8.4.3 FBOs selling raw drinking milk and cream intended for human consumption

Clarification of Local Authority requirements with regard to raw drinking milk and cream intended for human consumption  

Chapter 8.4.11 Official tuberculosis free status and dairy hygiene legislation 

Rationalisation of text to remove some  of the more detailed material, which is on the APHA website.

Chapter 8.7 Food for specific groups

Text amended to reflect the new requirements in Regulation (EU) 609/2013   

Chapter 8.10.1 Food waste and animal by-products

Additional material on surplus food redistribution

Annex 3 Links to main legislation, guidance and forms 

Updating and addition of relevant material

 

 

 


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