Food businesses in Ipswich need to register all of their premises with the Council before opening or before starting to use new premises. You may be fined, imprisoned for up to two years or both if you run a food business without registering.
If you intend to set up a business that manufactures or handles (for example, slicing and re-wrapping) products of animal origin* for sale onto other businesses, your premises may have to be approved instead.
The law requires that food business operators must register every separate unit of their food business establishment that carries out any of the stages of production, processing and distribution of food.
The Food Law Code of Practice 2017 states that each Competent Authority must have an up-to-date, documented Food Service Plan which is readily available to food business operators and consumers.
