Issue - items at meetings - West Suffolk Council Food Safety and Health and Safety Service Plans 2023 to 2024

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West Suffolk Council Food Safety and Health and Safety Service Plans 2023 to 2024

Meeting: 14/03/2023 - Cabinet (Item 456)

456 West Suffolk Food Safety and Health and Safety Service plan (Report number: CAB/WS/23/016) pdf icon PDF 151 KB

Report number:     CAB/WS/23/016

Portfolio holder: Councillor Andy Drummond

Lead officer: Jen Eves

Additional documents:

Decision:

Resolved:

That the Food Safety and Health and Safety Service plan 2023 to 2024, as contained in Appendix A to Report number: CAB/WS/23/016, be approved.

Minutes:

The Cabinet considered this report, which sought approval for the West Suffolk Food Safety and Health and Safety Service plan 2023 to 2024.

 

The Food Safety and Health and Safety Service plan outlined the Council’s commitment to protect public health and safety and the environment, by conducting programmed and reactive interventions, investigations, and research to detect, eliminate and control hazards by applying fair, transparent, and proportionate enforcement.

 

The plan, which was a statutory requirement set out in the code of practice for food safety, was attached as Appendix A to the report, and was considered in detail by the Cabinet.

 

Councillor Andy Drummond, Portfolio Holder for Regulatory and Environment, drew relevant issues to the attention of Cabinet, which included summarising progress made against the 2021 to 2022 plan, and the key challenges identified that would affect the implementation of the 2023 to 2024 plan, as set out in sections 2.1 and 3.1 of the report respectively.

 

The Cabinet supported approval of the plan and acknowledged the extensive amount of work undertaken by officers in this service area.

 

Resolved:

 

That the Food Safety and Health and Safety Service plan 2023 to 2024, as contained in Appendix A to Report number: CAB/WS/23/016, be approved.


 

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