Food Standards

The Food Standards Agency is an agency which monitors the cleanliness of all food outlets in the United Kingdom.  The cleanliness of them is displayed in the window of the food outlet before you walk in.  Outlets are rated Zero to Five (Zero being the lowest).  It’s a great way of seeing what is going on in the background and a great way of making sure that the standard are being kept up and to shame those whose standards are way to low.

So I decided to do a little digging on this.  These outlets are given their rating from the Local Authority, so they should have the information on the records, shouldn't they?  So I asked all Welsh Councils the same thing which is:

1) How places are in your authority that need a food hygiene rating certificate

2) How many of them (At time of writing) have a rating of 0

3) How many of them (At time of writing) have a rating of 1

4) How many of them (At time of writing) have a rating of 2

5) How many of them (At time of writing) have a rating of 3

6) How many of them (At time of writing) have a rating of 4

7) How many of them (At time of writing) have a rating of 5

For those of you regular readers will note that i publish a post once I get a response from 16 councils, but when I get the same response from 6 councils (Or more) I will publish anyway.  This is an example of having the same response. You see all the councils that I spoke to me answer the same thing which is you can get this information from the Food Standard Agency themselves.

It shows all of the relevant information that is needed and all of the things that you need to do. IN fact it even has an app on how to get the information.  This is brilliant! It means that you can book a table at a restaurant and check its food hygiene rating before you go!  Amazing!  

The thing is I cannot give the the individual breakdown, purely because I cannot figure out how to get it, but I can give you the amount of business in the council authority.

Name	Amount
Anglesey	613
Blaenau	565
Bridgend	1046
Caerphilly	1254
Cardiff	2763
Carmarthenshire	1641
Ceredigion	1146
Conway	1516
Denbighshire	940
Flintshire	1093
Gwynedd	1988
Merthyr Tydfil	477
Monmouth	846
Neath Port Talbot	995
Newport	1270
Pembroke	2006
Powys	2221
RCT	1967
Swansea	1701
Torfaen	591
Vale Of Glamorgan	1090
Wrexham	1056

Quite amazing, isn't it?  I mean this shows that Cardiff has as a little bit more than Pembroke and Powys.  Didn't expect that did you kids?