Bay Tree Foods have a rating of 5 – Hygiene standards are very good!
The scheme gives businesses a rating from 5 to 0 which is displayed at their premises and online so you can make more informed choices about where to buy and eat food.
What the rating covers
Ratings are a snapshot of the standards of food hygiene found at the time of inspection. It is the responsibility of the business to comply with food hygiene law at all times.
This includes:
handling of food
how food is stored
how food is prepared
cleanliness of facilities
how food safety is managed
The food hygiene rating scheme does not provide information on the following factors:
quality of the food customer service culinary skill presentation comfort.
Understanding ratings
The rating shows how well the business is doing overall, based on standards found at the time of inspection. The ratings can be found online and on stickers which are displayed at business premises. The back of the sticker and the online rating will also show the date of the inspection by the local authority’s food safety officer.
Ratings are typically given to places where food is supplied, sold or consumed, such as:
restaurants, pubs and cafes
takeaways, food vans and stalls
canteens and hotels
supermarkets and other food shops
schools, hospitals and care homes
A food safety officer from the local authority inspects a business to check that it follows food hygiene law so that the food is safe to eat.
At the inspection, the officer will check the following three elements:
how hygienically the food is handled – how it is prepared, cooked, re-heated, cooled and stored
the physical condition of the business – including cleanliness, layout, lighting, ventilation, pest control and other facilities
how the business manages ways of keeping food safe, looking at processes, training and systems to ensure good hygiene is maintained
The officer can then assess the level of confidence in standards being maintained in the future.
The rating scale
The hygiene standards found at the time of inspection are then rated on a scale:
5 is top of the scale, this means the hygiene standards are very good and fully comply with the law.
0 is at the bottom of the scale, this means urgent improvement is necessary.
To get the top rating, businesses must do well in all three elements which are referenced above. If the top rating is not given, the officer will explain to the business the necessary actions they can take to improve their hygiene rating.