New COVID-19 food businesses guide launches

View this email in your browser

Covid 19

New COVID-19 Food Business Advice launches

covid guide

The COVID-19 coronavirus and the resulting lockdown has changed our lives drastically in a short time. Everyone has had to change the way they live, work and conduct their business. The closures of all pubs and restaurants have hit a UK industry worth over £40bn, and many fear long-term damage to the industry. Many businesses are exploring, and others have already begun diversifying their business model to adapt to "the new normal". To aid this, the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI), and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have launched a free expert guide on business diversification during the pandemic.

One Stop Shop

The guide provides information on:

The guide also provides links to various websites and sources of information to help you manage your business and to do the right thing during this pandemic.

You will find links to :

food safety advice including allergens and food waste

health and safety and undertaking risk assessments

Adapting restaurants and food businesses for takeaway and food delivery during COVID-19

T/A Food

Guidance on how to reopen and adapt food businesses to work safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This guidance is to help employers, employees and the self-employed understand how to work safely when providing takeaway and food delivery services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Guidance from the Food Standards Agency focuses on the hygiene processes and requirements you must follow to safely operate your food business.

This guidance should be read in conjunction with Working safely during COVID-19 (Opens in a new window) and wider government advice on COVID-19. This will give you a practical framework to identify what you need to do to continue, adapt, or restart operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Read More

Reopening checklist for food businesses during COVID-19

Kitchen

 

A checklist to support food businesses to reopen safely during COVID-19 after a period of inaction.

This guidance is to help employers, employees and the self-employed understand how to work safely when providing takeaway and food delivery services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Guidance from the Food Standards Agency focuses on the hygiene processes and requirements you must follow to safely operate your food business.

This guidance should be read in conjunction with Working safely during COVID-19 (Opens in a new window) and wider government advice on COVID-19. This will give you a practical framework to identify what you need to do to continue, adapt, or restart operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Our reopening checklist for food businesses during COVID-19 can be used to mark progress when safely reopening your business.

Food safety for food delivery

This guidance provides food safety information for food businesses which deliver meals to customers.

If you are a new business, we have further information on setting up a food business and how to manage food safety effectively.

For information and regulations around taking payments, managing customer data, and selling age-restricted products online, you can consult the Association of Convenience Stores' home delivery guidance (Opens in a new window).

Free Webinar

Working safely during coronavirus:restaurants offering takeaway or delivery.

The UK Government, in consultation with industry, has produced guidance for businesses in England, to help ensure workplaces are as safe as possible. Join the free webinar,

taking place on :Wed, 27 May 2020 15:00 – 16:00

hosted by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, to find out more about how to make your workplace COVID-secure. This webinar is designed to be relevant for any food preparation or food service setting where food is sold for takeaway or delivery-

Join this online webinar to find out more about safety at work in restaurants offering takeaway or delivery services during coronavirus 

Join Webinar