Food and Health & Safety Service Plan 2024-25 - Flipbook - Page 17
BACKGROUND
2.4 Demands on the Service
Food and Health & Safety
The food safety and health & safety regulatory service is delivered by a single team of
people with a mix of skillsets.
Most of East Sufolk9s food businesses fall to East Sufolk Council for the delivery of
oïcial controls and other aspects of food safety and hygiene legislation. The council
regulates over 2,800 food businesses and the FSA itself regulates an additional
six approved establishments in the area, for example slaughterhouses, cutting
plants and game handling establishments. Prooles of local authority regulated food
establishments in East Sufolk according to risk are provided in appendix 5.
An outline of the projected demands on the food safety service is provided in
appendix 6.
The 29 businesses that are 8approved establishments9 in the area, produce osh,
shellosh, meat, poultry, and dairy, including raw cow9s drinking milk and eggs.
Adnams PLC, St Peter9s Brewery, Birds Eye Limited, Indo-European Foods Limited,
Lallemand Baking and Stokes Sauces Limited are large food and drink businesses
within East Sufolk and many of them export products. We issue export health
certiocates to many of these businesses and charge fees for this service.
Our oïcers have developed positive working relationships
with our businesses, such as Birds Eye in Lowestioft.
WE ARE EASTSUFFOLK
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