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Due diligence
If there is a food safety issue with your business, the only admissible defence you have is that of due diligence.
This means being able to prove you have taken all necessary steps to control risks and produce safe food.
The FSA has produced Safer Food, Better Business and its counterparts in Scotland and N Ireland to assist in the practicalities of setting up a system based on HACCP principles.
Our Food Safety Checklist helps you document your system reviews, demonstrating your due diligence.
The Food Safety Checklist covers traceability, training, premises and equipment, cleaning procedures, cross contamination, temperature control, staff and sickness and corrective actions if things go wrong.
Food Safety Checklist
The last of the HACCP principles requires that you review your system regularly. This ensures your procedures are working and that hazards are being controlled.
Food Solutions, in conjunction with the UK authorities, has drawn up a Food Safety Checklist. It is a memory aid to stimulate you to ask and answer questions about your food safety procedures and controls.
Members of Food Solutions can download the Food Safety Checklist free from the member section of the website.
Members also benefit from:
- regular updates on existing, new and impending food regulations
- our annual Guide to the Regulations
- access to our food and business helpline
- access to the members area of the website with alphabetical index of articles. Links to the regulations and official guidance, useful sites and products are also provided.
- the chance to influence impending legislation as we work closely with authorities in the UK and Brussels.
Our Guide to Understanding the Food Hygiene and Safety Regulations contains a chapter on HACCP and the Food Safety Checklist.
Previous issues of our publications have carried the Food Safety Checklist.