Together with nutrition, food safety is a fundamentally important issue all around the world. Nowadays, people increasingly want to know about the products they eat and drink and legitimately expect not only to be safe from real risks but also also to feel safe and protected from constant suspicion (Catalan Food Safety Plan 2011-2015).
In this sense, pursuant to the provisions on food safety in the Law 18/2009, of 22 October, on public health , local councils have powers in preventing the health risks associated with food in retail sale establishments, restaurants, local food production and the urban transport of food products.
The Barcelona Provincial Council's Public Health Service offers technical and financial support to local councils to contribute to the development of these powers.
Food safety advice. For municipalities over 10,000 inhabitants or minors who do not receive the previous support of Monitoring and control of food establishments.
Areas:
Advice to newly incorporated municipal technical staff for official control visits to food retail establishments in various sectors.
Punctual advice to municipal technical staff in carrying out inspections in retail establishments that involve some type of complexity.
Punctual advice to municipalities without technical staff to carry out inspections in retail establishments in case of complaint.
Other
Application period: from 28th December 2023 to 31st December 2024
Applicability document. Updated November 2012 [PDF, 379 kB] . Document explaining how to apply the registration criteria.
Data sheets on the hygiene and sanitary conditions of food retail establishments Reference documents intended for municipal technical personal and food company operators, providing the most significant data concerning hygiene and sanitary conditions that food retailers and catering establishments must meet and the legislation regulating these conditions.
Documents that enable systematic assessment of the sanitary conditions of the food establishments subject to municipal jurisdiction.
Guide for the performance of self-inspections in food retail establishments Templates for simplified self-inspection plans designed for operators of food retail and catering establishments, in order to implement the prerequisites. These are concise, practical forms that are very easy to complete and may provide a very useful tool in helping food operators comply with their obligation to implement self-inspections.
Simplification of prerequisites in certain food retail establishments. February 2013. This document identifies the establishments to which simplified prerequisites can be applied and specifies the minimum criteria of the prerequisites defined in the self-inspection guide for Catalonia.
Guide for the performance of self-inspections in food retail establishments Templates for simplified self-inspection plans designed for operators of food retail and catering establishments, in order to implement the prerequisites. These are concise, practical forms that are very easy to complete and may provide a very useful tool in helping food operators comply with their obligation to implement self-inspections.
Five Keys to Safer Food Manual WHO document targeting food safety instructors, divided into two sections: the first provides reference material and the second explains the five keys to safer food, expanding on the basic information given in the WHO poster Five Keys to Safer Food.
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