Food safety

The Food Safety team in Edinburgh are responsible for enforcing a wide range of food safety and standards legislation.

What we do

A guide to the range of services and work carried out by the team.

Training and education

How to work in the team

News and information

Keep up to date with the current developments

Policies and performance

View our service plan, and policies relating to food safety.

Our Service Standards (below) are currently open for consultation, if you wish to comment please take part in our survey

  • We will respond to serious and fatal accidents investigation on the day of notification.
  • We will respond to other accidents requiring investigation within 5 days of notification.
  • We will complete high risk food and health & safety inspections within target.

Performance against our services standards - download our performance for 2009/10.

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Do you have any comments, feedback or queries about our service? Please let us know.

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Contacts
Name: Environmental Health and Trading Standards
Address: Chesser House 500 Gorgie Road Edinburgh EH11 3YJ
Tel: 0131 529 3030
Fax: 0131 469 5849

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Did you know ?
During 2009/10 we dealt with 1302 service requests ranging from alleged food poisoning, foreign bodies in food, food labelling and unhygienic premises