Food businesses in Denbighshire are being encouraged to sign up to one of two seminars being arranged to inform them about a new national food hygiene rating scheme being launched on October 1.
Denbighshire and Conwy Councils’ joint food hygiene teams are working together on the project to encourage businesses to improve hygiene standards and to help consumers make informed choices.
The National Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (‘Scores on the Doors’) is a UK-wide scheme being developed between the Food Standards Agency (FSA), food businesses, local authorities and other related organisations.
The chief purpose of the scheme is to allow consumers to make informed choices about the places in which they eat out and from which they purchase food, and through this, to encourage businesses to improve hygiene standards.
Restaurants, takeaways, cafés, sandwich shops, pubs, hotels, supermarkets and other retail food outlets, as well as other businesses where consumers can eat or buy food, will be given a hygiene rating as part of the scheme.
There are six different hygiene ratings – the top one represents a very good level of compliance with legal requirements and businesses across the country will be rated consistently by participating Local Authorities, so ensuring that they are compared fairly. All local authorities in Wales are intending to take part in the scheme.
All ratings will be published on a national website where consumers can see them, and businesses will also be encouraged to display them at their premises – so called ‘Scores on the Doors’.
The first seminar will be held at the Rhyl Pavilion Theatre on Wednesday, 13 October at 6pm. The second event will be staged at the Royal International Pavilion, Llangollen on Wednesday, 20 October at 6pm.
To book a place at one of these seminars, please e-mail: [email protected] or phone 01824 712613.
For more information about the scoring scheme, please visit www.food.gov.uk
