Food Safety
The Food Safety Service consists of 8 environmental health practitioners who cover all the areas within Southampton City Council's administrative boundary. To find out what they do please read on.
Contact Details:
Address: Food Safety Service
Southampton City Council
Southbrook Rise
4-8 Millbrook Road East
Southampton
Postcode: SO15 1YG
Telephone: 023 8083 2767
Email: food.safety@southampton.gov.uk
Details of service:
The Food Safety Service consists of 8 environmental health practitioners who cover all the areas within Southampton City Council's administrative boundary.
The Service aims to ensure that:
- all food and drink at the point of sale and/or consumption has been handled in such a way as not to present a health risk to you, the consumer.
- the spread of infectious disease and gastro-enteritis are prevented and controlled.
By:
- inspecting food premises on a routine basis.
- trying to identify the source of the illness and take measures to avoid a recurrence.
- investigating all complaints concerning food premises, which include hygiene standards cleanliness, rubbish, odour and noise nuisances.
- dealing with complaints about individual food products.
Food quality and labelling issues are dealt with by the Trading Standards Service
- Setting up a food business in Southampton (41kb) - Pdf
- Food establishment registration form (51kb) - Pdf
- Food hygiene training in Southampton (46kb) - Pdf
Food labelling
This page gives advice to businesses on food labelling; enforcement of legislation relating to food labelling. Includes packaged food, descriptions applied to meals and food at take-away outlets. Program of sampling of food and investigation of complaints relating to food which is misdescribed and past use-by dates.
Food safety regulations
New food hygiene laws came into force in the UK from 1st January 2006 and affect all food businesses, including caterers, primary producers (such as farmers), manufacturers, distributors and retailers. This page gives you more information and a link to the food standards agency.
Last updated: 30 June 2008
