As a food business, you and your staff need to have good hygiene.

Safer Food, Better Business (SFBB) information packs give you information to make sure both your staff and the food you serve are safe.

A SFBB pack is made up of:

  • safe methods, which follow the '4Cs' - cross contamination, cleaning, chilling and cooking, as well as management. These contain clear guidance on safe and hygienic food handling, with colour photographs showing good and bad practices
  • a diary, which includes staff training records, supplier's list and cleaning schedules, as well as sheets for you to note down anything that has gone wrong
  • a four-week review to look at what went wrong and what action you took to remedy the problem

Once you have completed all the safe methods, the diary should take no more than a minute a day to complete. You can combine it with existing written documentation, such as temperature records, cleaning schedules and pest control.

Get a SFBB pack

Full details of the SFBB packs are available on the Food Standards Agency's website:

Safer food, better business (Food Standards Agency)

The website also provides useful tutorials showing you how to get started with the packs.

Contact us

Food and Safety
Regulatory Services Partnership
Merton Civic Centre
London Road
Morden
SM4 5DX

Tel: 020 8545 3025
foodandsafety@merton.gov.uk