The annual national Food Safety Week is the point in the calendar for highlighting the importance of food safety and the basic principles of food hygiene.

Led by the Food Standards Agency, along with a range of other partners, the theme of this year’s campaign is “Germ-watch”. The idea is to raise awareness of good food safety practice, including the use of the “4Cs”:

The Food Standards Agency is encouraging organisations to run events this week to raise awareness of food safety issues. You can download resources on the Foodlink website.

Local councils do lots of work to raise awareness of food safety, prevent poor food safety standards make sure that businesses follow food hygiene rules. Read more about the kind of work you could do working as a technical officer in food safety.