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Food and safety service
Medway Council's Food and Safety Team aims to ensure that all
food offered to the public is safe to eat. The team focuses on
protecting public health and supporting businesses to ensure that
they achieve compliance with food safety law and also to maintain
legal standards of hygiene and safety.
Inspections
Food safety officers have wide powers of enforcement and are
able to inspect any stage of the production, manufacturing,
distribution and retail sale of food. Food premises are inspected
at a frequency consistent with the risk in terms of food safety
hazards and all necessary steps are taken to protect the health of
consumers. Legal action may be taken against food premises that do
not comply with food safety law.
Food hygiene
The team also provides advice and guidance to the public on
issues of food hygiene and the
investigation of outbreaks of food poisoning
and notifiable diseases. The team works together with the Food
Standards Agency (www.food.gov.uk) to maintain
standards of food safety and hygiene and to protect consumers
through effective food enforcement and monitoring.
Health and safety
The team also inspects business premises in Medway to reduce the
risk to people from hazards in the workplace. The team provides
advice on health and safety to
businesses and the general public and can take action to ensure
compliance with the law. Complaints by employees are investigated
in relation to working conditions as well as accidents at work and
work-related ill health.
The team shares responsibility with the Health and Safety
Executive (HSE) (www.hse.gov.uk) for enforcing and
providing advice on health and safety matters in Medway.
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