Food Hygiene and Safety

We are here to help with guidance on how businesses can maintain and improve on standards for their customers, staff and anyone else affected by their activity.

The Environmental Health Department is responsible for:

  • Inspection and Enforcement of food safety legislation in food businesses
  • Registration of food businesses
  • Following up complaints about food sold or manufactured in the area
  • Investigating cases of food poisoning and infectious disease
  • Fish inspection and port health duties
  • Food sampling

Food safety officers inspect food premises according to the risk they pose. There is a Code of Practice produced by the Food Standards Agency which states how often each food premises will be inspected.

In addition, the food safety section provides a number of services to assist local businesses. These include:

  • Producing food safety guidance and leaflets on food safety issues
  • Food hygiene training courses
  • Seminars and workshops on food safety issues

You can also find a lot of information on food safety, hygiene, nutrition and national issues such as GM food on the Food Standards Agency website, available here.

Devon County Council enforce trading standards, checking specifically the nature, quality and labelling of food.

The links on the right provide guidance for businesses and the public.

Page last updated on 25 November 2011