Decision details
Food Law Report 2017/18 and Review of 2016/17
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
This report sets out the Council’s annual plan for effective enforcement of food safety legislation. The objective of the plan is to ensure that food is produced and sold under hygienic conditions, is without risk to health and is of the quality expected by consumers.
The Food Standards Agency requires Local Authorities to have in place a Food Law Enforcement Service Plan. The plan will form a significant part of the criteria against which Local Authorities will be audited by the Agency to assess their effectiveness in ensuring food safety.
Decision:
DECISION
1. To approve the Tower Hamlets Food Law Enforcement Service Plan 2017/2018 and Food Sampling Policy attached at Appendix One of the report.
Action by:
ACTING CORPORATE DIRECTOR, PLACE (A. SUTCLIFFE)
(Head of Environmental Health and Trading Standards (D. Tolley)
Report author: Roy Ormsby
Publication date: 21/09/2017
Date of decision: 19/09/2017
Decided at meeting: 19/09/2017 - Cabinet
Effective from: 29/09/2017
Accompanying Documents:
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