food hygiene standards

• A Cleaner Bill ; Food Hygiene Standards Higher Than Ever

TAKEAWAYS and food businesses across Middlesbrough are as safe and clean as they've ever been. Checks by Middlesbrough Council's Community Protection Service have revealed an all-time high in hygiene standards.

• Evening Gazette
• August 04, 2010

• Five Stars for Food Hygiene Standards

CATERING staff at Polam Hall School in Darlington have received top marks for their standards of food hygiene. The school has been awarded a five-star Tees Valley Food Hygiene Award rating.

• The Northern Echo
• January 12, 2009

• Big Score Tells the Truth About High Standards of Food Hygiene

Food safety inspections have been a role of Derby City Council's environmental officers for decades. For two years the council has been converting the inspections into a star rating for hygiene as part of its Scores on the Doors scheme. Local government correspondent Kirsty Green went on an inspection to see how the system works. THE sight and smell of a delicious home-made pie is enough to encourage most people to get out the knife and fork and start tucking in.

• Derby Evening Telegraph
• September 29, 2009

• Nil Points for Food Hygiene ; Bad Practices See City Premises Get Lowest Ratings in Council Inspections

THE Echo can today reveal the reasons why 11 food premises in Cardiff scored zero in new food hygiene ratings compiled by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The rock-bottom ratings were handed out after inspections by Cardiff council food safety officers since October and reveal habitual bad practice that could potentially lead to contamination.

• South Wales Echo
• March 10, 2011

• Nine in 10 Food Outlets Meet Hygiene Standards

Statistics released by Derbyshire Dales District Council show more than 90% of businesses are meeting food hygiene standards. Within the Dales, 525 of the 563 inspected businesses achieved at least two stars and 400 scored three stars or higher.

• Derby Evening Telegraph
• July 02, 2009

• Editorial Comment Accountability Key On Food Hygiene Standards

Ur further revelations today about the shortcomings of food premises inspection regimes in Wales give further cause for concern. It is shocking that it has taken the Food Standards Agency more than two-and-a-half years to publish its audits of three local authorities. When a major point of instituting such audit procedures was to reassure the public, it seems extraordinary that details of the findings were kept internal to the Agency for so long. The only explanation that has been offered for the delay is a lack of resources. Clearly the matter was not seen to merit high priority at the FSA - a puzzling conclusion given the worrying content of the audits.

• Western Mail
• October 17, 2005

• Restaurants Praised for 5 Star Results

DINERS can find out the food hygiene standards of restaurants, cafs or takeaways in Solihull without stepping over the threshold, thanks to a new online star rating service. Solihull Council has joined a national scheme which sees environmental health teams publishing the ratings they give food outlets following hygiene inspections.

• Birmingham Mail
• January 05, 2011

• Breaking News: Food Hygiene Standards Improve Under New Scheme

A new scheme to assess food hygiene standards at restaurants and other outlets in Hull has been hailed a success. It comes three months after the launch of the "Scores on the Doors" project by Hull City Council.

• Hull Daily Mail
• June 08, 2007

• Hospital Hygiene Errors Revealed in Report On Kitchen

THE full shocking details of a food and hygiene standards report about Swansea's biggest hospital kitchen has at last been made public. Since the Morriston Hospital facility was rated one star by inspectors from Swansea Council, the Post has been pushing for the details to be revealed.

• South Wales Evening Post
• April 02, 2011

• Interpreting Hygiene Rules ; Council Chiefs in One Corner of the West Have Turned to Interpreters to Try to Tighten Food Hygiene Standards in Their District's Restaurants and Takeaways.

Council chiefs in one corner of the West have turned to interpreters to try to tighten food hygiene standards in their district's restaurants and takeaways. The food safety team at Trowbridge-based West Wiltshire District Council discovered a 'very large' proportion of staff working in kitchens on their patch had English as their second language - and attempts to enforce food hygiene regulations and train staff there in best practice were fraught with difficulty.

• Western Daily Press
• July 03, 2008