If you run a food business registered in the East Hampshire district, and your work is low risk (see examples below), you may not need an in-person inspection after your first one. Instead, you can complete a short self-assessment questionnaire.
Low-risk businesses can include:
These types of businesses are usually inspected every two or three years. Because we focus most of our time on higher-risk places like restaurants, takeaways and food factories, we collect simple information from low-risk businesses instead of visiting them every time.
We may still need to visit you if you have made big changes to your business, such as:
We may contact you and ask you to fill in the questionnaire, but you can complete it at any time. Once you submit it, we will review your answers and may be able to delay your next inspection.
The online questionnaire usually takes less than five minutes.
Submit food safety self-assessment questionnaire
After we receive your questionnaire, we will check that you are following food law. If nothing important has changed, we will update our records to show that a virtual inspection has taken place and adjust your next inspection date.
Sometimes we may need more information, and in some cases, we may still need to visit your premises.
If you need help or want more information about the questionnaire, you can email us at ehealth@easthants.gov.uk.