Food and Health & Safety 2025 - V4 - Flipbook - Page 13
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’s (FSA) Safer Food, Better
Business food safety management system
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Checking inland imported foods at retail and catering establishments
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Issuing Export Health Certi昀椀cates and Food Safety 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
Providing port health authority services at the Port of Lowestoft which includes
inspecting ships and issuing Ship Sanitation Control 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 high-risk
activities in sectors speci昀椀ed by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in the National
Local Authority Enforcement Code or where intelligence suggests risks are not being
managed e昀昀ectively
Leading East Su昀昀olk’s Safety Advisory Group (SAG) to engage with event organisers to
address public safety as a priority
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