Food hygiene: finalising the package

摘要

Ed Komorowski explains how and why new food hygiene laws affecting all food businesses, including caterers, primary producers (such as farmers), manufacturers, distributors and retailers, will apply in the UK from 1st January next year. Food legislation is being changed to set out more clearly the duty of food businesses to produce food safely and to achieve consistency. The legislation includes most areas of farming for the first time, so it covers the whole food chain from "farm to fork". This is being achieved by revoking European Directive 93/43/EEC (the Food Hygiene Directive), European Directive 92/46/EEC (the Dairy Hygiene Directive), as well as the other vertical directives such as those applying to meat, fish, shellfish and so on and replacing them with regulations to simplify the requirements and achieve greater uniformity.