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