Food safety services
The Council's Food Safety Service protects the health of West
Lancashire's residents and visitors by ensuring that all food which
is produced and sold in our area is safe for consumption. This is
done through a programme of inspections, in addition to the
investigation of complaints and incidences of food or water-borne
diseases.
There are over 800 registered food premises in the Borough, which
include primary producers, manufacturers, retail and catering
premises.
Services we provide
The Commercial Safety section is responsible for providing the
following food safety services:
- Maintenance of the food premises register
- Programmed and reactive inspection of all food premises
- Investigation of food complaints and complaints relating to
unsatisfactory premises/practices
- Advisory visits and provision of information
- Food sampling for survey and monitoring purposes
- Investigation and control of infectious disease cases and
outbreaks relating to food
- Responding to food hazard warnings from the Food Standards
Agency and notifying them of any serious local food problems
- Maintaining a Food Quality System
- Promotion of food safety through education and promotional
events
- Input to various licensing services on food safety matters
- Issue of Health Certificates - a new certificate costs £110.88
and a variation to an existing certificate costs £27.72
- Monitoring of Shellfish beds
- Approval of product specific premises
- Operating imported food controls
Contact information
- Online:
Food Safety online form
- Tel: Commercial Safety on 01695 577177
Out of Hours: out of hours emergency service is available 24 hour
by contacting 01695 577177. An Environmental Health Officer can be
contacted through this number in an emergency eg. food poisoning
outbreak.
- Write to: Community Services, West Lancashire Borough Council,
Robert Hodge Centre, Stanley Way, Skelmersdale WN8 8EE
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