UK Urged to Reveal Hygiene Scores for Food Businesses

The UK’s Food Standards Agency has been urged to make it compulsory for food businesses across South Wales to display the hygiene scores of their products.

The agency has also been asked to make a change in the legislation for the mandatory behaviour of the food business sector, watchdog Consumer Focus Wales said.

Consumers will be able to get the scores within six months, it said.

Star ratings from zero to five allocated under the agency’s ‘scores-on-the-doors’ scheme will be listed on a website.

The initiative follows public pressure to make caterers more accountable in the wake of an E.coli O157 outbreak in South Wales.