Incident Prevention

Preventing incidents is important for protecting consumers' interests, ensuring food standards and safety and maintaining trust in the food chain.

Our incident prevention strategic plan highlights five goals that we aim to achieve over the next couple of years.

As part of this strategy we monitor food and feed safety patterns in Scotland. We also provide guidance and workshops to industry. We work closely with partners such as local authorities, Public Health Scotland (PHS), Food Standards Agency (FSA) and other government departments to make sure food incidents are managed effectively.

To help prevent incidents, food business operators can:

  • use trusted sources of raw materials and ingredients

  • conduct supplier audits

  • take part in assurance schemes

  • comply with food safety management standards

  • ask local authorities for advice

Preventing incidents on farms

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