This pack is for small catering businesses such as restaurants, cafés and takeaways that have registered with the local authority as a food business. It has been developed by the Food Standards Agency, working with catering businesses, to be practical and easy to use.

Food safety and hygiene regulations say that you must be able to show what you do to make and sell food that is safe to eat and have this written down. The pack helps you do this. This pack is based on the principles of HACCP (hazard analysis and critical control point), but you will not find words such as ‘HACCP’ or ‘hazard’ in the pack because we have cut out all the jargon.

Work through the pack one section at a time and complete all the safe methods that are relevant to your business. It will take you about one hour to complete a section. We suggest you do one section at a time, for example one a week so that it is just one hour of your time to get started. When you have worked through all the sections, make sure you and your staff: • follow the safe methods all the time • fill in the diary every day

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