Food and Health & Safety Service Plan 2023-24 - Flipbook - Page 6
1.0 Service Aims
1.1 Aims
Food and Health & Safety
The Food and Safety Team aims:
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To ensure food businesses have adequate arrangements in place to enable safe and
hygienic food production and handling.
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To control the spread of infectious diseases through the investigation of cases
and outbreaks.
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To secure and maintain a safe and healthy environment in those establishments for
which we have health and safety enforcement responsibility.
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To support businesses by providing food export health certi昀椀cation.
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To provide advice and assistance to businesses and consumers.
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To ensure healthier environments where everyone can socialise, relax, travel, shop
and work free from any second-hand smoke.
Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority
Su昀昀olk Coastal Port Health Authority (SCPHA) aims to uphold the protection of public
and animal health, as well as controls on organic products and illegal, unreported and
unregulated 昀椀shing, as one of the UK’s biggest port health authorities. It achieves this by
performing essential checks on food, feed and animal-origin products imported to the
Port of Felixstowe, Harwich International Port and the Port of Ipswich for entry into the
UK. This is in addition to carrying out ship sanitation certi昀椀cation and infectious disease
controls, contributing to Britain’s biosecurity measures at the border.
SCPHA also aims to continue combatting the spread of African Swine Fever in a joint
operation with Border Force, which has seen over one tonne of illegal pork seized from
tra昀케c entering the ports of Harwich and Felixstowe.
Corporate Health and Safety
The Corporate Health and Safety Team aims to provide competent advice, guidance,
support and training in matters relating to health and safety in respect of all the council’s
employees, activities and workplaces. This enables the council to comply with its legal
obligation to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare
of all its employees and the health and safety of anyone who might be a昀昀ected by the
council’s activities.
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East Suffolk Food and Health & Safety Service Plan 2023/24