Service Description: The scheme help consumers choose where to eat out or shop for food by giving them information about the hygiene standards in restaurants, cafés, takeaways, hotels and food shops. The scheme also encourage businesses to improve hygiene standards. The overarching aim is to reduce the incidence of foodborne illness.
Also known as:- Score on the Doors
Answer: Food hygiene inspection rating consistency workshops have been held within the Isle of Wight Council and also with other local authorities to ensure that ratings are issued consistently between local authorities as well as between individual officers. Scores are also reviewed by senior officers before they are issued to ensure they accurately reflect the hygiene practices, structural conditions and hygiene management systems in place at the time of the inspection. - Related Link