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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 :
- Interpreting Microbiological Results leaflet (.PDF 43kb)
For more information on making a complaint about food you have purchased refer to our :
- Food Complaints leaflet (.PDF 230kb)
See also external websites :
- Food Standards Agency Website (www.food.gov.uk)
- Eat Well (by the Food Standards Agency) Website (www.eatwell.gov.uk)
- Food Link website (www.foodlink.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.ukresilience.info - contains information on current food scares or problems.
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)
