Decision Maker: Cabinet (Resources) Panel
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
The report is intended to inform Cabinet of
the Authorities legal requirement to produce a Statutory Food
Service Plan and to present, for Cabinet’s consideration and
approval, the draft Statutory Food Service Plan for 2017-
2018.
The Statutory Food Service plan describes how the authority’s
food safety service will be discharged in 2017-18. It details the
numbers, types and priority ratings of the City’s food
premises, the frequencies of planned interventions, sampling
programmes, health promotion activities, reactive work, including
responding to food complaints, food hazard warnings and
investigating cases of infectious disease.
1. That the draft 2017/18 Statutory Food Service Plan be approved.
2. That the Cabinet Member for City Environment in consultation with the Service Director for City Environment, be authorised to approve the final version of the Statutory Food Service Plan for 2017/18.
3. That the requirement to prepare a Food Service Plan be noted.
4. That the impact on the ability to deliver the statutory requirements of the Food Standards Agency because of the resource reductions arising from the restructure of the service in 2014 and the demands on the service from other performed functions be noted.
5. That the positive impact on food safety standards of the development of the food hygiene service following a systems thinking intervention, be noted.
Report author: Emma Caddick
Publication date: 26/04/2017
Date of decision: 25/04/2017
Decided at meeting: 25/04/2017 - Cabinet (Resources) Panel
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