Welcome to the fifth Regulating Our Future newsletter

Welcome to our latest newsletter, which I hope you find interesting and informative. We've had a busy couple of months. We've been on the road holding a series of meeting with local authorities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, where we discussed the latest version of our Target Operating Model - more information below. And we've been putting together our paper: Regulating Our Future: Why food regulation needs to change and how we are going to do it. If you haven't already seen it you can find it here. This is a key document which feeds-back the outcomes of our engagement with all of you over the last 18 months.

Mrs H J Hancock
Chairman

Local authority engagement events

The ROF team set out on a 'road trip' covering Northern Ireland, Wales and eight regions of England. At our meetings we engaged with over 700 local authority colleagues as we discussed our latest iteration of the Target Operating Model.

Latest iteration of the Target Operating Model

We've published an updated version of the ROF Target Operating Model (TOM), the blueprint for how we will deliver future regulation. It includes the steps we need to take to ensure that food businesses are the best they can be from the day they start operating.

Third meeting of the consumer panel

The ROF Consumer panel met for the third time on Saturday July 22. The overall aim is to ensure consumers are engaged in the design of the new regulatory framework and that the FSA understands consumers' reactions, priorities, and their perceived risks and benefit.

The Director for 'Regulating our Future' discusses our plans for the future of Food Regulation

We are one year into a major transformation programme to modernise and re-shape the way food businesses are inspected. This is a whole system approach, understanding what information is available to food safety officers, from a wider range of sources, and how this could be used in the future to gain assurance that food is safe and what it says it is.

Our Expert Advisory Groups

Below you can listen to two short videos from Heather Lewis, Consultant in Communicable Disease Control at Public Health Wales and Bob Fox, Chairman of The Nationwide Caterers Association. Both members of our two Expert Advisory Groups for Industry and Professions.