Thursday, 09 October 2025
This Guidance Note on food safety culture has been produced to provide guidance to food business operators on implementing food safety culture, and to assist official agencies in the incorporation of food safety culture assessment within official controls.
The Guidance Note outlines the legal requirements, and provides recommendations and best practices, to help food businesses of all sizes actively develop, maintain and ensure the appropriateness of their food safety culture. These best practice recommendations are not mandatory but provide valuable tools to comply with the legal obligations set out in Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs, as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2021/382.
