Food hygiene & food standards inspections

The Food Safety Unit carries out routine inspections of registered food premises to ensure that food is being prepared properly and stored hygienically.

Officers will also carry out checks on the quality, composition and labelling of food.

Routine inspections are the best way of educating businesses and maintaining good standards of food hygiene within the food sector.

Officers will also check as to whether businesses are operating a food safety management system based on the principles of food safety hazard analysis. All businesses are expected to have procedures in place to ensure that food is produced safely and that critical points in food processes are adequately controlled.

Depending on what they find during inspections, Officers may give verbal advice. However, it is more common that legal requirements are stipulated in letters and notices served on the food business operator. In more extreme cases businesses may be closed or owners prosecuted.

Contact us

If you have any queries about this page or any matter that relates to food safety or food businesses in Newham please call 020 8430 2000 and ask for the Food Safety Team or alternatively e-mail food@newham.gov.uk.