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The proposed changes include: 

1. an updated risk-based approach to the prioritisation and timescales for undertaking initial food hygiene official controls of new food establishments

2. enabling, in certain circumstances, an establishments food hygiene intervention risk rating to be amended following a wider range of official control methods and techniques, including those undertaken remotely

3. extending the activities that officers, who do not hold an ‘appropriate qualification’ for food hygiene or food standards can, if competent, undertake

4. a clarification in approach to interventions at food business establishments that fall into risk category E for food hygiene

5. removal of a prescriptive number of hours required for continuing professional development (CPD)

6. other amendments which do not amend policy, to provide clarity, improve consistency and keep pace with current practices

More information available below:

• Consultation England
• Consultation Wales
• Consultation Northern Ireland

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