Venners introduces Allergen Procedure Audit to support hospitality operators manage a safe environment in a sector where current compliance levels average below 75% Venners has added an Allergen Procedure Audit to the services it offers to the licensed trade in response to regular failings identified that could have fatal consequences. Early illustrations show that…
Ensuring ongoing legislative, operational and financial compliance is critical to running a safe and profitable restaurant business. While it can be challenging to do this across a multi-site estate, third-party auditing has been proven to deliver valuable insight and stringent controls for the savvy operator. 1. Comply with food safety, health and allergens legislation…
Since the new allergen laws were launched in 2014, we’ve advocated for more focus on allergens, quickly recognising the need for operators to perform periodic reviews of how well their sites provide allergen information to customers. So we weren’t overly surprised to see the BBC’s Watchdog programme in November 2018 airing their investigation into…
Our final week for food allergen management advice has arrived! Over the last two weeks we’ve been providing a number of considerations that could help your business improve its standard operating procedure for food allergen compliance. We’ve covered the topics of food allergen training and food allergen documenting already, so this week it’s all about…
Last week we published our first blog in a series of three on how to improve food allergen management. We looked at some top tips on how to use training to strengthen food allergen standard operating procedure. This week we’ll be looking at documenting food allergens properly. We’ll take you through what is legally…
The recent news about several tragic incidents related to food allergens has shaken up the hospitality industry. It’s been a stark reminder of the necessity for tighter food allergen management and controls. However, our food safety experts are still hearing about incidents throughout the UK where businesses are not following basic food allergen rules. It…
