Our food hygiene auditors provide you with practical compliance solutions that suit your operation
Food hygiene audits and the law

UK food hygiene regulations do not require you to have an independent food hygiene audit by a food hygiene auditor. However your business will be inspected by an enforcement officer from your local environmental health department. A food hygiene audit alerts you to what you need to comply with food hygiene regulations and so avoid costly legal action being taken against you.


About our food hygiene audits

Your food hygiene auditor will conduct an inspection of your food premises to ensure they meet food hygiene regulations and your HACCP plan (FSMS) is working. Our food safety consultants have extensive enforcement experience so recognise situations when EHOs will and won’t take legal action so can ensure that you prioritise your expenditure.

more » We can audit against your own food hygiene audit standard or you may want us to provide this for you. Our in-depth food hygiene audits examine a number of factors that influence food safety and determine whether your performance against each is:

- Good
- Satisfactory but would recommend improvements
- Not meeting legal requirements
- A serious risk to health

An action plan is produced which details what needs to be done and we assign a percentage score so that you can compare your sites and monitor improvement in performance over time. We also give a prediction of the scores on the doors star rating that would be assigned by an EHO.

We can provide you with food hygiene audit guidance we use to ensure consistency. This details what the auditor will examine and how they will determine your performance against each of the factors. This can then be used to self audit prior to the inspection.

If you have a number of sites we can provide you with a trend report at the end of the audit round which shows common problems and why they are occurring. We recommend changes that will improve overall company performance and ideas to incentivise team members. Our food hygiene consultants have worked with many companies and know what is required to nurture a ‘food safety culture’ which results in long term improvements.

Our food hygiene auditor save you money by not ‘playing it safe’ and introducing a fear of food hygiene hazards that aren’t serious or are unlikely to occur. Instead, they seek out practical solutions to ensure that you comply with the law in a way that suits your type of operation and style of working.


Food hygiene audits and scores on the doors

Your food hygiene auditor predicts the likely number of stars on your next scores on the doors certificate and details what you need to do to achieve 5 stars. When you are inspected by an enforcement officer they will check how you verify that your FSMS (food safety management system) is working. The fact that you are being independently audited should improve the ‘confidence in management’ section of your food hygiene rating score.

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