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Certain food establishments need to be approved rather than registered. If you handle products of animal origin, such as meat, fish, milk and/or eggs and you supply food to other food businesses, you may need to be approved.
We grant some approvals, and the Food Standards Agency grants others.
We approve:
The Food Standards Agency approves:
Food businesses can only start operating after we have given conditional or full approval for the proposed activity.
Apply for approval of food premises
To check if your business needs to be approved, or to enquire about the application and decision-making process, please contact us:
We maintain an up-to-date database of food businesses that we have approved or conditionally approved. Lists of approved food premises are available on the Food Standards Agency website.
For advice on premises approved by the Food Standards Agency, please contact them: