FSA publishes food law enforcement data

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has just published official statistics on food law enforcement by local authorities for the year 2016/17. The information provided by local authorities and compiled by the FSA, gives a detailed breakdown of enforcement activity across the UK.

The new data shows:

• an increase in food hygiene compliance in food establishments, continuing the trend of increases since 2014/15;
• a decrease in the number of planned interventions for food standards, which covers areas such as authenticity and food fraud;
• the percentage of due food hygiene interventions, which covers food safety, has continued to rise, 85% compared to 84% last year.
• the total number of complaints about the safety and quality of food and the hygiene standards of food establishments investigated increased by 23.5% with hygiene complaints investigated (73,806) increasing by 31.7% and standards complaints investigated (11,414) decreased by 12.2%
• a continuing fall in staffing levels which reduced by 2.7% in 2016/17 compared with the previous year.

The full report can be found here: 'Annual report on UK local authority food law enforcement'

An ‘infographic’ can be found here: 'Local Authority Food Law Enforcement Infographic'