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Environmental health
Food safety
This service aims to ensure that storage, preparation, manufacture and sale of food is free from the risk of food poisoning and meets food safety requirements. This is undertaken by :
- Inspecting food businesses, planned on the basis of risk
- Licensing and approving premises that pose special risks
- Investigating food complaints
- Routine sampling of foods for microbiological examination
- Providing advice to businesses on best practice
- Consumer health education
For more information or to report a complaint about food safety, please either contact Environmental Support or use our on-line form (see contact details).
For more information about food testing, and indicator or food poisoning bacteria, see our :
For more information on making a complaint about food you have purchased refer to our :
Food Service Plan
The Adur Food Service Plan can be found below :
If you wish to make any comments on our plan please send Environmental Support an e-mail.
Food composition and labelling
You
can also find out about food law enforcement and food composition and labelling
by calling West Sussex County Council's trading standards service on : (01243) 642125.
See also :
- Food Law Enforcement on the WSCC website (www.westsussex.gov.uk/ccm/content/trading-standards/food.en)
See also other useful external websites :
- Food Standards Agency Website (www.food.gov.uk)
- Eat Well (by the Food Standards Agency) Website (www.eatwell.gov.uk)
- Food and Drink Federation website (www.fdf.org.uk) - contains on-line advice about food safety and food poisoning.
- DEFRA website (Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs) (www.defra.gov.uk)
- www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ukresilience.aspx - contains information on current food scares or problems.
Other food safety advice on external websites :
- Barbeques and picnics - food safety tips : Food Standards Agency website (www.eatwell.gov.uk/keepingfoodsafe/partiesandevents/)
- Bugs like it hot - food safety tips : Food Standards Agency website (www.eatwell.gov.uk/healthydiet/seasonsandcelebrations/summer/bugslikeithot/)
- Beat the barbeque bugs leaflets : Food Standards Agency website (www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/webpage/barbecue_bug_leaflets)
- Food poisoning information and advice : Food Standards Agency website (www.eatwell.gov.uk/healthissues/foodpoisoning/)
- See also : Heatwave advice
