Food and Health & Safety Service Plan 2023-24 - Flipbook - Page 14
BACKGROUND
2.3 Scope of our Responsibilities
Food and Health & Safety
The Food and Safety Team has responsibility for:
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registering and, where appropriate, approving food establishments
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conducting food safety inspections and other interventions of businesses
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implementing an alternative enforcement
strategy for food establishments given an
intervention rating of category E for food
hygiene (refer to appendix 19)
providing information on food hygiene
standards to residents using the Food
Hygiene Rating Scheme
giving advice to food business operators
including help on implementing the Food
Standards Agency (FSA) Safer Food, Better
Business food safety management system
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checking inland imported foods at retail and catering establishments, issuing Food
Export Health Certi昀椀cates and Premises Endorsements for Export
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investigating complaints concerning food, food establishments and food handling
practices
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investigating cases of suspected and con昀椀rmed food poisoning
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using a range of food safety enforcement actions, including taking emergency
prohibition action where conditions present an imminent risk of injury to health,
and prosecution
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providing the Lowestoft Port Health
Authority service, inspecting ships and
issuing Ship Sanitation Certi昀椀cates
conducting health and safety interventions
at premises for which the council has legal
enforcement responsibility. Proactive
inspections are used to target the highrisk activities in sectors speci昀椀ed by HSE in
the National Local Authority Enforcement
Code or where intelligence suggests risks
are not being managed e昀昀ectively
East Suffolk Food and Health & Safety Service Plan 2023/24