Development & Implementation of Safer Food Better Business (SFBB) for Small Businesses

The new Food Hygiene (England) Regulation 2006 requires all food businesses to introduce HACCP based food safety management systems from 1st January 2006.

What is Safer Food Better Business?

‘Safer food, better business’ or SFBB, is an innovative, jargon free, practical approach to food safety management, developed by the Food Standards Agency and aimed at helping small catering and Retail businesses comply with the new Regulation. Within the Regulation there is flexibility, for example, record keeping should be appropriate to the size and nature of the business.

SFBB consists of a series of safe method fact sheets, based on the FSA’s Food Hygiene 4Cs campaign, and an extra section to help the Business manager deal with basic supervision and management issues.

A simple daily diary forms the record-keeping requirement.

The caterer/retailer works through the safe method fact-sheets and selects those that are applicable to them and then adopts them or adapts them to their own business as necessary. This will form a system unique to the business.

By following these safe methods the business is following pre-approved/validated advice. However if the business wishes to use their own methods, they must develop their own safe method and prove that it is safe.

The key objective of SFBB is to ensure that businesses can provide safe food to consumers using an approach that will enable legal compliance with the new Regulation, but will be practical for micro and small catering & retail businesses.

The Food Standards Agency recognised that many small businesses will require further guidance to explain how they may comply.

We are specially trained and active in “Safer Food Better Business”.

For Catering & Retail Businesses we can:

Act as your Mentor and help you implement SFBB to fit your business needs, at all times keeping paperwork to a minimum and

Ensure you receive appropriate training.

For Local Authorities we can:

Work on your behalf to deliver the goods, within your district, to relevant food premises.

Implement workshop and coaching sessions to train your own enforcement staff to effectively deliver the SFBB initiative.

Download the Safer Food Better Business Pack for Caterers

Download the Safer Food Better Business Pack for Retailers

Download an introduction on how to use the Retail Pack

To discuss your requirements and for a confidential no obligation quotation please contact us.