Food safety

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Advice for businesses during the Coronovirus pandemic. 

Below you will find a list links and documents that are designed to help you with Covid-19 compliance:

• Working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19). Guidance to help employers, employees and the self-employed understand how to work safely
• Reopening and adapting your food business during COVID-19
• Reopening checklist for food businesses during COVID-19
• Food safety for food delivery: hygiene and allergy advice for takeaways and food delivery businesses
• Food safety for community cooking and food banks: Hygiene and allergy advice for individuals and groups preparing meals to share in their community
• We have produced a poster to display at the entrance of your business, available on the business support page, H&F COVID-19 Secure poster for shops. If you would like hard copy please contact us.
• Checklist for small retailers (word) This checklist will help you to put in place safe systems in your shop and used to check they are working effectively
• Guidance for food businesses on coronavirus (COVID-19) gov.uk
• The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health have produced a guide for food takeaways and deliveries.

We aim to ensure that all food and drink sold by the borough’s 2,000 food businesses is produced, stored, distributed and handled without risk to the health and safety of consumers.

We offer a variety of services and advice relating to food safety. This includes information about registering a food business, regulations, training opportunities and other guidance.

• Registering your food businesses
• EU Transition (Brexit) and your food business
• Food export health certificates and importing food
• Food safety inspections
• Food hygiene rating scheme
• Food hygiene advice for new food businesses
• Food safety and public health
• Food safety complaints
• Food poisoning
• Food allergy awareness
• Labelling (food standards) - information about the quality, composition, labelling, presentation and advertising of food
• Labelling changes for food that is ‘prepacked for direct sale’ from October 2021 (Natasha’s Law).

External links:

• Food Standards Agency
• Public Health England
• Department of Health
• Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• Chartered Institute of Environmental Health

Trade waste - your legal duty

Important information on how to deal with your trade waste.

Training opportunities for businesses

Help your business or organisation stay on the right side of the law - find out about public health training courses.

General data protection regulations

For information on general data protection regulations and how we manage your data please see Food and Safety Team privacy notice.

Contact details

Hammersmith & Fulham Council
The Environment Department
Food and Safety Team
Hammersmith Town Hall
King Street
London
W6 9JU

020 8753 1081
foodandsafety@lbhf.gov.uk