A Bengali speaking food hygiene trainer has helped improve standards in dozens of Indian restaurants and takeaways in Swansea.
Thirty food businesses in the city were visited as part of Swansea Council’s work to raise and maintain standards in the local food industry.
The Council’s Food and Safety Division recruited the specialist food hygiene trainer after obtaining a grant from Food Standards Agency.
The funding was used to recruit the Bengali speaker and to organise a series of seminars and workshops for Bengali food business owners to attend.
Advice has been given to the food businesses linked to food safety requirements and all the businesses were assisted with producing and adopting the Safer Food Better Business pack.
The result has been an improvement in 80 percent of individual food hygiene ratings for Bengali food businesses- a scheme more commonly known in Swansea as Scores on the Doors.
Half of the Bengali businesses inspected have also received three or four stars under Scores on the Doors. This means they are either good or very good.
And all 103 of the food handlers from all thirty businesses attended level two and level three food hygiene training in Swansea.
Cllr John Hague, Cabinet Member for the Environment in Swansea Council, said: “I’m delighted that all the businesses who attended the seminars have achieved so much.
“Food hygiene is essential in food businesses and we have a duty to do everything we can to ensure these restaurants and takeaways maintain as high a standard as possible.”
You can visit the Council’s Scores on the Doors website to check out individual scores for food business at www.swansea.gov.uk/ScoresOnTheDoors.
