Food safety management systems and HACCP

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To protect the consumer from risk of illness and to help raise quality standards, the law requires all businesses and organisations to have a Food Safety Management System . This needs to be in as much detail as is necessary for the risks posed by the tasks carried out.

For further information please see the links below - these link to the Food Standards website and will open in a new browser window:

• Safer Food, Better Business - a government sponsored, easy to use system
• Cooksafe - an updated scheme based on the classical 'Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)

Last updated: 19 March 2009