Food safety
The work of the Food Safety Division covers a wide range of food related issues to protect the health of all consumers living in, working in, or visiting Perth and Kinross and is split between the subjects of
Food Hygiene and
Food Standards.
This includes inspection of food businesses, sampling of foodstuffs, investigation of food complaints and food poisoning and advice to businesses and consumers on all aspects of food safety and consumer protection.
It is the aim of the Food Safety Division to ensure that all food offered for sale to the public is safe for consumption and meets all the legal standards required for composition, labelling and advertising.
The Food Safety team base their enforcement strategy on a policy of support to business allied to the consistent application of the Council's approved enforcement policy, in an effort to build an effective partnership with local food business's for the benefit of all stakeholders. This approach has been in place for a number of years and has been officially recognised by the Cabinet Office's Chartermark Award Scheme (
www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/chartermark) as a model of excellent service provision.The Award which runs for a three year period was initially granted in 2000 and has been successsfully retained at subsequent audits in 2003 and 2006. In order to achieve the Award the Food Safety Division has had to demonstrate continuous improvement and customer satisfaction to the Cabinet Office's stringent quality standards. Copies of the most recent assessment and follow up review carried out in 2007 are available as a download. Customer feedback on service provision during 2007/08 is also available as a download.
In 2006/07 the net cost of the Food Safety Service in Perth & Kinross was £608,000 which equates to a figure of £4.40 per year per head of population.
