Regulatory Services - Food Safety
What do they do?
- Inspect all food premises throughout Barnsley MBC.
- Organise courses and deliver training in food hygiene. For details contact tel. no. 01226 773860.
- Investigate complaints about food, e.g. foreign objects found in food.
- Investigate complaints about poor hygiene in food businesses.
- Investigate individual cases of suspected food poisoning and food poisoning outbreaks.
- Give advice to members of the public who are to operate a new food business to ensure compliance with food law prior to an inspection taking place.
- Undertake food sampling from food premises around the Borough for microbiological testing to ensure our food is safe to eat.
- Give support to food businesses regarding Safer Food Better Business - a Food Safety Management System.
Who do they work for?
They are employed by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council.
How to contact the food team?
BMBC, Regulatory Service, Third Floor, Central Offices, Kendray Street, Barnsley. Tel. no. 01226 773860 or email.
For information on food safety in catering training, please download the attached document.
Food Safety in Catering - Food Safety in Catering.pdf
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FOOD RETAILERS DID YOU KNOW?
From the 1st January 2006 the following raw food waste has to collected in a separate bin: raw sausages, raw burgers, rare cooked meat, salami, raw poultry, raw fish, frozen raw meat, raw eggs. IT CANNOT GO TO LANDFILL SO YOUR COLLECTOR MUST KNOW THIS. The retailers must keep a record of what has been sent, the amount and who collected it.
Safer food, better business
This food safety management pack produced by the Food Standards Agency has been developed to help small catering businesses such as restaurants, cafes and takeaways comply with new regulations that came in on the 1st January 2006. Click here for more information or click here to order a copy of the Safer food, better business. Tel. no. 0845 606 0667
For more information on Scores on the Doors, please click here
Stop Slips in Kitchens - The initiative is aimed at people working in and managing kitchens. Everyone has a part to play when it comes to stopping slips. Chef's, managers and business owners need to set up effective systems for preventing slips and trips and then need to ensure staff are informed, trained and following those systems. For more information click here or contact Stephen Butler, Senior EHO (Health and Safety), Barnsley MBC, Regulatory Services. Tel No 01226 773863
