Food Standards Agency Data

Details of the business expenses of the FSA's Directors, its Chair and Board members.

The FSA has two pay scales – one for staff based in London and a national scale for all other staff.

The dataset is template for sampling data to be inserted into. This sets the data standards for sampling data within the organisation.

A survey tracking views of small and micro food businesses on regulatory issues and trust in the FSA.

Quarterly summaries of FSA expenditure approvals for ICT, advertising and marketing, recruitment, property and consultancy controls.

Ipsos UK conducted an online i:Omnibus survey among a sample of 384 adults aged 18-75 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland who have used or consumed CBD products in the last 12 months. The sample was screened to from a nationally representative starting sample of 1,968 adults aged 18-75 across the three nations.

A mixed methods research study to understand the views and experiences that FBOs have of the FSA and Official Controls. This dataset includes the data gathered from survey interviews conducted with 400 meat, wine, dairy and shellfish FBOs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

A rolling 12 months of time recording by Official Veterinarians and Meat Hygiene Inspectors in approved meat premises on the FSA electronic time recording system and broken down by month.

The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme Audit and Business Survey is an annual piece of research conducted across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is a dual strand piece of research involving a covert audit of businesses to look at rates of FHRS display, and a telephone survey to explore business attitudes and awareness towards the scheme. The data to be published is the individual country weighted data tables for the 2024 wave of the research.

Food hygiene rating or inspection results given to a businesses and date of inspection or visit by the local authority. Businesses include restaurants, pubs, cafés, takeaways, hotels and other places consumers eat, as well as in supermarkets and other food shops. The data is held on behalf of local authorities participating in the FSA's national food hygiene rating schemes.

All outside appointments or employment taken up by former Food Standards Agency staff at senior civil service levels SCS1 and SCS2.

A list of companies exporting to the European Union currently made subject by the European Commission to Intensified Official Controls (those with the statuses ‘Active’, ‘Imposing checks’ or ‘New’ in the Intensified Official Controls part of the TRACES/TRACES NT system). It is possible that certain companies who have recently been made subject to checks and have yet to have a check carried out on them may not be on this list.

This document describes the data standard for submitting food sampling results data to the Food Standards Agency. It describes the fields, their data types and order as well as providing specific guidance on acceptable values and which fields use specific reference data values.

Food and You Survey - Background Information

Food and You - Combined results for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Food and You - Dataset and Users Guide

Food and You - Northern Ireland

Food and You - Wales

Food and You 2 Survey data tables, dataset and data user guide. Tables are provided for England, Wales and Northern Ireland combined and separately.

Food and You 2 Survey: Wave 1 data tables, abridged dataset and data user guide. Data were collected between 29th July and 6th October 2020. Tables are provided for England, Wales and Northern Ireland combined and separately. A more detailed dataset (SPSS) will be uploaded to the UK Data Service.