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“Local authorities can play an important part in promoting a ‘food safety culture’ among local businesses, making food safety a completely natural part of the way that catering and front-of-house staff go about their work, and providing a supportive inspection process that helps local food businesses overcome their problems and serve safe and healthy food.” Jenny Morris, Principal Policy Officer, Chartered Institute for Environmental Health and member of the London Food Board

London Boroughs are pivotal in promoting food safety, to protect citizens’ health and food business viability. They can, for example:

• Through environmental health officers, develop good relationships with local food businesses to help instil safe food management, staff training, regular reviews of safety practices and detailed advice on handling high-risk items.
• Promote staff training to make food safety routine. For specialist food safety training towards recognised qualifications, see the courses offered by the Chartered Institute for Environmental Health, from a network of 10,000 registered trainers, see: www.cieh.org.
• Promote food safety accreditation for food suppliers to a recognised scheme such as BRC (www.brcglobalstandards.com), EFSIS (www.saiglobal.com, for larger food producers), Farm Assurance (www.redtractor.org.uk, for smaller and larger food producers), or SALSA (www.salsafood.co.uk, for smaller food producers).