Scores on Doors
‘Scores on Doors’ is a system which grades and displays food safety inspection results of retail food businesses for customers to see.
The grades will be a good advertisement for businesses that comply with food safety legislation.
Popular in New Zealand, North America and Europe, the Scores on Doors programme is designed to help consumers make informed decisions regarding food safety and hygiene when selecting somewhere to eat out.
The programme is designed to:
- Acknowledge the hard work of well performing businesses
- Improve consumer access to information about the businesses' food safety performance
- Put additional market pressure on businesses to improve compliance
- Standardise food assessment and scoring system across the site.
Premises will be inspected as part of the annual inspection programme and rated.
Definitions
| Grading | Points | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| A | 0-3 | Excellent - highest level of compliance with food safety legislation. |
| B | 4-8 | Good - complying with food safety legislation. Minor issues. |
| C | 9-15 | Acceptable - broadly compliant with legislation, but more effort required with legislation. |
| P | 16+ | Pending status - poor level of compliance with legislation. Follow up action is required. Business will be re-inspected in 3 months and re graded. |
Participating councils
Around 20 NSW local councils are participating in the pilot programme. They are:
- Goulburn, Holroyd, Tumbarumba, Forbes, Parkes, Taree, Warringah, Kogarah, Blacktown, Sydney, Ashfield, Randwick, Parramatta, Upper Hunter, Newcastle, Mosman, Waverley, Wyong, Penrith and Cessnock.
Participating Premises
The City of Newcastle currently has 18 premises involved in the trial.
Program features
- Pilot runs from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011
- Participating food businesses receive a certificate to display
- Participating businesses will receive information to provide for their customers.
Getting involved
Premises who wish to participate are asked to contact Council's Food Services on 02 4974 2525 and enter into an agreement for the trial period.
Contact us
City Administration Centre
282 King Street
Newcastle NSW 2300
Tel: 02 4974 2000