Use of food traders
As the event organiser you have a responsibility for checking that the food vendors at your event are suitable. When using food traders at your event, the following information should be obtained before your event from each of the food vendors:
- the business name and registered address of the business
- the name of the local authority that the business is registered with
- the food hygiene rating score for the business (if they have been inspected).
A food business must be registered with a local authority and will normally have been inspected by the local authority's environmental health department and given a food hygiene rating, to indicate their level of compliance with food hygiene legislation. This may not necessarily be Chorley Council. We advise that you check their food hygiene rating on the Food Standards Agency website, to ensure that the food businesses have a good level of compliance (a rating between 3 and 5).
If you need further advice from our Environmental Health team, please contact them on 01257 515151.