Food Safety Legislation Flashcards
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Which UK legislation places the primary legal duty on food business operators to ensure their food is safe?
Answer: The Food Safety Act 1990
The Food Safety Act 1990 is the primary framework legislation in England, Wales, and Scotland. It places duties on food businesses to ensure food is not injurious to health and meets the standards expected.
Which EU-derived regulation, retained in UK law post-Brexit, sets out the general principles and requirements of food law?
Answer: Regulation (EC) No 178/2002
Regulation 178/2002 (retained as UK law) establishes the general principles of food law, the concept of farm-to-fork traceability, and the precautionary principle, alongside creating the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
What does the Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006 require of food businesses?
Answer: To implement food hygiene procedures based on HACCP principles
The Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006 implement EC Regulation 852/2004, requiring food businesses to implement and maintain hygiene procedures based on HACCP principles.
What is the 'due diligence' defence under the Food Safety Act 1990?
Answer: A defence available to a food business that can prove it took all reasonable precautions to prevent a food safety offence
The due diligence defence allows a business to avoid liability if it can prove it took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence.
Under UK food law, who has primary enforcement responsibility for food safety in catering businesses?
Answer: Local authority Environmental Health Officers (EHOs)
Local authority Environmental Health Officers are the primary enforcement body for food hygiene in catering businesses, with powers to inspect, serve improvement notices, and prosecute.
What is the maximum penalty under the Food Safety Act 1990 for selling food that is injurious to health?
Answer: Unlimited fine and/or up to 2 years' imprisonment
Following the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, fines under the Food Safety Act can be unlimited, with custodial sentences of up to 2 years for the most serious offences.