Eating out at a food business in Leicester? Search for the latest Food Safety Report and check the SmileSafe rating.
You can also check the recent enforcement activity taken against food businesses in the City. This includes details of prosecutions and Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Notices (temporary food business closures).
All food businesses must be registered before opening and any significant changes in the business notified to us. If your business is to be located within the City of Leicester, complete an Application to Register a Food Business Establishment form online.
If you are thinking of setting up a food business, all of the relevant information that you need is contained in the setting up a food business section, including information for businesses who wish to produce food of animal origin and must be approved.
If you are thinking of setting up a food business, all of the relevant information that you need is contained in the setting up a food business section, including information for businesses who wish to produce food of animal origin and must be approved.
The advice for businesses section has advice on a number of topics including pest control and temperature control.
Food hygiene laws changed on 1st January 2006. To find out more about what has changed and whether the changes affect you, click the link to visit the Food Standards Agency Food Hygiene webpages or the Food Hygiene and Safety pages of the Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General of the EU.
All food businesses must put into place documented food safety procedures where necessary. The Food Standards Agency has released two packs to help small catering businesses comply with this requirement; CookSafe and Safer Food, Better Business.
Members of the public can look at the advice for consumers that we have about food safety at home as well as to learn how and when to make a complaint about food or food premises.
Food Alerts are the Food Standards Agency's way of letting local authorities, businesses and consumers know about problems associated with food.
Leicester City Council is an accredited provider of Food Hygiene Training and offers a range of courses in both food safety and health and safety at work.