Food and Health & Safety Service Plan 2023-24 - Flipbook - Page 18
BACKGROUND
2.4 Demands on the Service
Food and Health & Safety
The food safety and health & safety regulatory service is delivered by a single team of
people with a mix of skillsets.
Most of East Su昀昀olk’s food businesses fall to East Su昀昀olk Council for the delivery of
o昀케cial controls and other aspects of food safety and hygiene legislation. The council
regulates over 2,900 food businesses and the FSA itself regulates an additional
six approved establishments in the area, for example slaughterhouses, cutting
plants and game handling establishments. Pro昀椀les of local authority regulated food
establishments in East Su昀昀olk according to risk are provided in appendix 5.
An outline of the projected demands on the food safety service is provided in
appendix 6.
The 31 businesses that are ‘approved establishments’ in the area produce 昀椀sh,
shell昀椀sh, meat, poultry, and dairy, including raw cow’s drinking milk and eggs.
Adnams PLC, St Peter’s Brewery, Birds Eye Limited, Indo-European Foods Limited,
Lallemand Baking and Stokes Sauces Limited are large food and drink businesses
within East Su昀昀olk and many of them export products. We issue Food Export Health
Certi昀椀cates to many of these businesses and charge fees for this service.
Our o昀케cers have developed positive working relationships
with our businesses, such as Birds Eye in Lowestioft.
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