To help businesses comply with food hygiene regulations, the Food Standards Agency is launching a nationwide campaign today, designed to raise awareness of the tools available to help food businesses stay on the right side of the law. Specifically designed to help businesses that supply food directly to consumers (takeaways, restaurants and cafes, for example) the campaign will run from today until the 1st of March.

Included in the campaign will be various tools, spread across the UK, all providing advice on effective food management techniques. These tools include England’s Safer Food, Better Business, Scotland’s RetailSafe, Wales’ CookSafe and Northern Ireland’s Safe Catering, along with radio adverts, online promotion and campaign posters. In fact, food hygiene campaign posters can be downloaded from the links on this page.

The Food Standards Agency’s Head of Enforcement, Sarah Appleby, said of the campaign that it is “to help to support the important work that local authorities do to ensure that food businesses comply with food law. It is also to give businesses the opportunity to achieve higher ratings for the rollout in 2010 of the national “scores on the doors” scheme for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the Food Hygiene Information Scheme in Scotland”.