Christmas party organisers urged to make a health check

[Kintyre Forum News]

Christmas party organisers urged to make a health check

With Christmas fast approaching, plans are being made for the festive period. If you’re organising a gathering with family, friends or work colleagues at a local restaurant, pub or hotel you’ll probably be checking out the menus, so why not check out the food hygiene inspection result as well?

Argyll and Bute Council operates the Food Hygiene Information Scheme (FHIS), which means that good food hygiene is easy for consumers to spot. Restaurants, pubs, hotels, cafes and other places that sell you food are given an inspection result by one of our enforcement officers at each food hygiene inspection. A ‘Pass’ shows that the establishment met the legal requirements when it was inspected.

When you eat out or shop for food, you should see a ‘Pass’ sticker in the window or on the door, or a certificate on display. Businesses are encouraged to display the stickers and certificates at their premises in a place where you can easily see them when you visit.

All results are also published online. You can see which other local authorities are operating the scheme and search more than twenty-six thousand results for establishments in Scotland at food.gov/ratings.

[Tom B]

This is a great idea - though I've never noticed the certificates here - will have to look for them. I seem to remember in Canada a few years ago they had a very prominent and compulsory rating system (A to E ?) which had to go in the window at the front. "Hhmmm, rated a D for hygeine, will give them a miss." - very effective - We should do that here too......

Are businesses really only encouraged to put up certificates here?