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Food Hygiene Rating Scheme

We operate the national Food Hygiene Rating Scheme designed to help you choose where to eat out or shop for food.

The scheme aims to give you information about the hygiene standards in restaurants, pubs, cafes, takeaways, hotels, and other places you eat out. Supermarkets and other food shops are also included in the scheme. We work in partnership with the Food Standards Agency.

Each business is given a ‘hygiene rating’ when it is inspected by one of our food safety officers. The hygiene rating shows how closely the business is meeting the requirements of food hygiene law.

When you eat out or shop for food, you might see a sticker in the window or on the door, or a certificate on display, showing you the hygiene rating for that business. Businesses are encouraged to display these at their premises in a place where you can easily see them when you visit.

If you’re planning to eat out or buy food in Lewes District, the following will provide you with information about a business and its hygiene rating.

Ratings

A business can be given one of these hygiene ratings:

Inspections

The food safety officer inspecting a business checks how well the business is complying with the law by looking at:

• how hygienically the food is handled – how it is prepared, cooked, re-heated, cooled and stored
• the condition of the structure of the buildings – the cleanliness, layout, lighting, ventilation and other facilities
• how the business manages and records what it does to make sure food is safe

The rating does not give any indication of the taste or flavour quality of the food, only the standards of hygiene in the business.

The food safety officer will explain to the person who owns or manages the business what improvements are needed and how they can achieve the top rating of '5'. We will check that these improvements are made. Any business should be able to reach this top rating

The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme has been designed to make sure that the ratings given to businesses are fair and consistent. Businesses are inspected without warning on a frequency commensurate with the risk they present.

• Further information on food business inspections

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