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: The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme is a ‘national scheme’ run in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. A similar scheme is run in Scotland. Each local authority can choose whether or not it wants to take part so the scheme is not running in all areas of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Some local authorities choose to run their own local schemes. The FSA is working with local authorities to encourage as many of them as possible to run the ‘national scheme’ so you can compare hygiene ratings of food businesses in your local area and further away from home. - Related Link