Mar 2nd, 2023
2 mins
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) has published its responses to the FSA consultations on the proposed changes to the Food Law Code of Practice in England and Northern Ireland.
The FSA consultations, which ran in October 2022, covered proposed changes to the Food Law Code of Practice in England and Northern Ireland which would implement a new food standards delivery model.
The two key proposals were the introduction of a New Food Standards Intervention Rating Scheme and a Decision Matrix, with an overall aim to provide local authorities with greater flexibility to be able to direct their limited resources more proportionately to the highest-risk Food Business Operators (FBOs).
Whilst the CIEH responses welcome the proposals in theory, they also raise a number of concerns, including the fact that the proposals do not address the lack of local authority resources. They also point out that requiring interventions 28 days after identifying high-risk FBOs will place huge resource pressures on local authorities.
You can read the CIEH responses here.
