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Food Law Enforcement
The Food Standards Agency will introduce a scheme for setting
and auditing standards for the enforcement of food law by local authorities.
It will:
• conduct a public consultation on a proposed scheme. This scheme
has been developed following extensive discussions with local authority
organisations, consumer groups, and food industry representatives.
• issue service planning guidance to local authorities in September
2000.
• establish monitoring and audit arrangements to provide and
publish data on enforcement activity and how it is being delivered.
• implement the new arrangements in April 2001.
• work collaboratively with local authorities to improve enforcement
standards - and to ensure that the Agency's decisions and recommendations
take account of the practical implications of enforcing them.
Scotland, Wales
and N. Ireland have been involved in
the development of these proposals. The Agency's Executives in the
three countries will make their own announcements on the implementation
of equivalent schemes adapted to meet local circumstances.
Proposals for the Food Standards Agency
Local Authority Food Law Enforcement Monitoring and Audit Accountability
Framework (England)
Proposals for the Food Standards
Agency Local Authority Food Law Enforcement Monitoring and Audit
Accountability Framework in Scotland
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