Terms of use
What this site is
Food Hygiene Alerts provides independent information, tools and data. Figures are researched, sourced inline, and dated; tools show their assumptions. Food Hygiene Alerts is an independent site operated by Ellul Solutions Ltd. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Food Standards Agency, Food Standards Scotland, any local authority or any government body, and it is not a food safety consultancy or a law firm. Nothing here is legal advice on an inspection, an appeal or an enforcement matter, and the rating for any particular business is a question for the local authority that issued it. We publish no penalty amount, appeal deadline or re-rating fee anywhere on this site: those are set in the schedules to the two Acts and in local authority policy, they differ between nations, and a figure we had not read at source would be a guess. Every requirement stated here is taken from the source cited beside it and read on the date shown at the top of this page.
What this site is not
Nothing here is financial, legal, tax, medical or other regulated advice, and no tool output is a quote, an offer, or a recommendation to act. Results are estimates from the stated assumptions; confirm anything that matters with a qualified, authorised professional before acting. Where we introduce you to a provider, we act as an introducer only: we do not advise on, arrange, or recommend between providers, and we never handle client money.
Accuracy and liability
We work to keep every figure current (each table shows its last-updated date) but make no warranty that content is error-free. To the extent permitted by law, Ellul Solutions Ltd accepts no liability for loss arising from reliance on this site. Links to external sites are provided for sourcing; we are not responsible for their content.
Embedding and citation
You may cite this site's data with attribution (a link to the page cited) and may use the embeddable widget where offered, unmodified. Scraping that removes attribution, or republishing tables wholesale without a link, is not permitted.