Food standards inspections

What does the food standards team do?

Officers from the food standards team inspect businesses to ensure that both food and animal feed is safe, appropriately labelled and of the required quality. Furthermore, officers from the team seek to ensure that the hygiene of animal feed premises is suitable.

The food standards team covers the following areas:

• Allergen labelling

• Identifying and preventing the supply of counterfeit and substituted foods (e.g. substitution of meat and counterfeit spirits)

• Food fraud (e.g. misleading claims)

• Chemical contamination of food

• Food labelling (ensure food is accurately labelled and as described)

• Food quality

• Feed hygiene and safety (helping to ensure that the food we eat is safe from farm to fork)

• Checks on imported feed.

• Animal feed export health certificates (non-animal origin). 

Do inspectors have powers to enter a food business?

All information pertaining to to food inspections is available from The food safety inspection process page.

Where can I find out more information about food standards?

A range of advice notes are on hand with further information on food standards issues.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA)

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) website contains a wealth of information on food standards legislation, guidance and news.

The Food Standards Agency (external website)

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) website has further information on the labelling of food products.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (external website)

GOV.UK

The GOV.UK website has further information on the distance selling of products.

GOV.UK - Online and distance selling for businesses (external website)

The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI)

The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) website has further information regarding food standards and trading standards issues.

Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) (external website)

East Riding of Yorkshire Council

The council's trading standards team can also provide further information on any non-food business issues.

For further advice please contact by:

Email: food.services@eastriding.gov.uk 

Telephone: (01482) 396301

Where can I find more information about the food safety inspections process?

More information is provided on the Food safety inspections process page.