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Create a safety culture that produces real results.
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"Ensuring the safety of your food business is our priority." Our consultants offer personalised and reliable food safety management services to meet your needs
Welcome to Intimate Cuisine Food Safety Consultancy, where our team of Food Hygiene Safety Consultants is dedicated to working closely with you to develop personalised documentation that will enhance your Food Safety Management System. We are committed to creating meticulously tailored food safety management systems and policies that meet each client's individual needs.
Our HACCP plans are crafted in clear and understandable language to ensure ease of comprehension. We provide a simple and practical food safety policy to facilitate compliance and implementation, featuring clearly defined protocols and meticulously maintained monitoring records. Our comprehensive Food Safety Management System encompasses elements such as a thorough Hazard Analysis, a customized Food Safety Policy, Cleaning Schedules for Equipment and Structure, Opening and Closing Checks, and Quality Standards
Your Food Hygiene Rating is a comprehensive assessment based on three key elements:
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1. Management of food safety
System or checks in place to ensure that food sold or served is safe to eat, evidence that staff know about food safety, and the food safety officer has confidence that standards will be maintained in future
2. Hygienic food handling
Hygienic handling of food including preparation, cooking, re-heating, cooling and storage
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3. Cleanliness and condition of facilities and building
Cleanliness and condition of facilities and building (including having appropriate layout, ventilation, hand washing facilities and pest control) to enable good food hygiene
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Safer Food Better Business Pack
Are you a takeaway, café, or restaurant owner looking to ensure your food business complies with food hygiene regulations? Let us assist you in completing and implementing the Safer Food Better Business Pack. Our experienced food safety consultant can visit your establishment to tailor the pack to your specific operation. You can download the pack for free from the Food Standards Agency's website or let us handle it for you.
EHO Food Inspection Support
Are you aware that 47% of potential customers check your Food Hygiene Rating before dining out? Ensuring your food business is prepared for an Environmental Health Officer's visit is crucial. Whether it's a routine inspection, a response to a customer complaint, or a product recall, it's important to show respect to the visiting enforcement officer. They work to ensure that your business complies with food hygiene and safety standards. During the inspection, they will review your food safety documentation, assess your premises, and may collect evidence such as photographs, samples, or swabs. Our team of Professional Consultants can assist with:
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appealing a Food Hygiene Rating
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responding to improvement notices
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immediate actions required for a Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Notice
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reviewing reports from Enforcement Officers
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guidance on improving your Food Hygiene Rating
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Ensure the safety of allergy sufferers
Compliance with Natasha’s Law
Natasha’s Law came into effect in October 2021 to protect allergy sufferers and give them confidence in the food they buy. The legislation requires food businesses to provide full ingredient lists and allergen labelling on foods pre-packaged for direct sale on the company’s premises. Food Protect can help you align your business to align with Natasha's Law. We create food allergen management systems that are compliant and tailored to suit your business size and customers.
For individuals with food allergies, the accuracy of food labelling and the prevention of cross-contamination can be a matter of life or death. We offer solutions to support your business:
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Ensure that all allergen information on your food labels is accurate and verifiable.
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Ensure that your food production processes comply with food allergen regulations. Align your business with Natasha’s
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Law, which mandates full ingredient lists and allergen labelling on foods pre-packaged for direct sale on your premises.
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47% of
potential customers
check your Food Hygiene Rating before dining out or ordering online!
EHO FOOD INSPECTION SUPPORT
FOOD ALLERGENS
BUILD YOUR CUSTOMER'S TRUST
Research shows that customers care about Food Hygiene Ratings
FOOD HYGIENE RATING
SAFE FOOD BETTER BUSINESS
The 14 regulated Allergens
In the UK, food businesses must inform you under? food law if they use any of the 14 regulated allergens as ingredients in the food and drink they provide.
Food law identifies the following 14 allergens as the most potent and prevalent:
*celery
*cereals containing gluten?(such as wheat, rye, barley and oats)
*crustaceans?(such as prawns, crabs and lobsters)
*eggs
*fish
*lupin
*milk
*molluscs?(such as mussels and oysters)
*mustard
*peanuts
*sesame
*soybeans
*sulphur dioxide and sulphites?(at a concentration of more than ten parts per million)
tree nuts?(such as almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, brazil nuts, cashews, pecans, pistachios
and macadamia nuts)
HACCP
Food Safety Management Systems
Our team of Food Hygiene and Safety Experts and Consultants works closely with you to craft customised documentation that strengthens your Food Safety Management System. This documentation encompasses the latest regulations and best practices to ensure unwavering compliance and excellence.
Food Safety Policies and Food Safety Management Systems are commonly known as HACCP documentation. According to regulations, all types of food establishments are required to establish and uphold documented protocols based on the principles of HACCP, which stands for Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points.
About Our Food Safety Management Systems
At Intimate Food Safety Consultancy, we specialise in providing meticulously tailored food safety management systems and policies that cater to the unique needs of each client. Our HACCP plans are articulated in straightforward language, ensuring clear comprehension on your part.
We deliver a clear and concise food safety policy designed for seamless compliance and implementation, including meticulously outlined protocols and well-maintained monitoring records, which offer crucial evidence of your comprehensive food safety supervision throughout the entire process from farm to fork.
(HACCP) is a very comprehensive working document that will be completely tailored to your business and will be cover the following elements:–
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A complete Hazard Analysis from farm to fork.
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A tailored Food Safety Policy.
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A Cleaning Schedule for Equipment and Structure.
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Opening and Closing Checks.
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Quality Standards.