have you ever wondered what food hygiene standards are like in your favourite restaurant or café?...

Have you ever wondered

what food hygiene standards

are like in your favourite

restaurant or café?

Food HygieneRating Scheme

Our Environmental Health Officers carry out routine inspections of all food premises including:

• restaurants• cafés• shops• hospitals• nursing homes• mobile food traders• pubs and hotels

Following each inspection the business isgiven a rating which can range from:

zero (urgent improvement necessary) to

five (very good).

Results of all ratings are publishedon the national website.

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Businesses are supplied with a certificate and window sticker to advertise their rating.

These should be clearly visible in all food premises in the district.

A certificate: A window sticker:

Searching for a business is easy

log on to:

www.food.gov.uk/ratings

… click here

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Type in one of the following:

Type in then search

• the name of the business,• the address or town,• the type of business,• the rating or• the name of the local authority.

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You may know where you want to eat locally but if you are going on holiday you can search where you are going to.

The result for Torquay:

More than 250 Local Authorities have, so far, signed up for the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme.

Numbers are growing all the time and the Food Standards Agency anticipate that around 95% of authorities will be in the scheme by summer 2012.

This is excellent news for consumers and businesses across the three countries. 

Currently there are over 152,000 businessesincluded on the national scheme with approximately

650 launching the Scheme in Huntingdonshire.

So before you

check this out …fork out,

Look out for thewindow stickers …

… and certificates …

… check out facebook …

… and twitter …

www.food.gov.uk/ratings

www.huntingdonshire.gov.uk/food

email: food@huntingdonshire.gov.uk

… and more information at: