Oct 27th, 2022
3 mins
Emily Miles, Chief Executive of the FSA has revealed in a recent blog, that 170,000 food business are available on three of the biggest online food delivery platforms, Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo and since the pandemic almost 40% of consumers order takeaway through these platforms.
These three large online platforms have developed a new Food Safety Charter, with support from the FSA, to ensure that only businesses registered with their local authority can sell food through their sites/apps, as well as meeting a minimum standard under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS).
The Safety Charter will also commit the food delivery platforms to use their communication channels to business and consumers, to share FSA hygiene and safety information to help support those consumers with food hypersensitivities.
The FSA believe this is a great starting point for their work with online platforms and hope it will improve compliance of food businesses with minimum standards. The FSA are constantly working to ensure food is safe wherever you buy it and the Food Safety Charter is an example of the FSA following their guiding principle of working with and through others to protect consumers.
If you have any thoughts around regulating online food sales, the FSA would like to hear from you. You are able to submit your comments on Emily Miles’ blog.
