Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council

Food safety and advice

The Food Safety Team is responsible for a variety of food business related issues.

Food business training and support

Our team carries out a variety of food safety training courses for food business owners and their employees. 

The Food Premises Register is a list of food-related businesses from the area. A food business is required by law to register with the local Environmental Health service (this includes market stalls, delivery vehicles and other moveable structures).

Food safety inspections and investigation

We carry out regular checks on all food premises to ensure that high standards are maintained.

We will investigate complaints about the standards of food, or food premises. We liaise with the owners of food businesses to give them appropriate opportunities to raise standards. We do prosecute when a business fails to comply with the law. 

To help control the spread of illness, the service is involved in the investigation of outbreaks of food poisoning and other infectious food-borne illnesses.

We also undertake a comprehensive programme of microbiological food sampling.  Results that are not satisfactory are investigated and we give advice to business owners about how they can improve manufacturing techniques or systems of handling and storage of food.

Contact the Food Safety team if you any concerns about a food business that you have visited, or if you own a food business and would like advice about raising standards in your food establishment.

Web Links

Stockton Council is not responsible for the content of external websites.

• British Nutrition Foundation
• foodlink
• British Dietetic Association