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Food safety

Customer advice

How to complain about food or food premises, what to do if you think you have been made ill

Business advice

How to set up and register a business, inspections, information for mobile vendors

Hygiene advice for volunteers and community organisations

Food safety advice for volunteers

National food hygiene rating scheme

Find out if a restaurant, takeaway or shop near you has good hygiene standards

Food labelling and allergens

Information about how food should be labelled

The council is responsible for food safety laws in the borough of Darlington

Contact a food safety officer on 01325 405111 or email [email protected]

Useful links

Food Standards Agency [external link]
Health Protection Agency [external link]
Food safety on GOV.UK [external link]
DEFRA [external link]
Meat Hygiene Service [external link]
Meat and Livestock Commission [external link]
Chartered Institute of Environmental Health [external link]
Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene [external link]

The council has an enforcement policy [pdf document] that relates to this work

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