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First Eat Safe Award For Stirling Business
Monday 15 May 2006
A guest house in Killin has become the first establishment in the Stirling Council area to be awarded a prestigious food hygiene award.
The Craigbuie Guest House, on Killin's Main Street, is the 111th Scottish recipient of the Food Standards Agency's (FSA) Eat Safe Award for excellence in food hygiene and food safety management.
Launched in Scotland in January 2005 by the FSA, the award scheme aims to improve public confidence and consumer choice in catering establishments across the country.
To date, 15 local authorities have presented Eat Safe awards to establishments within their areas, while other councils are working towards their first presentations to local businesses.
Sue Hughes, who runs the Craigbuie Guest House with her husband Vic, said she was very pleased with the news. She said: "We are absolutely delighted with this accolade and to be the first establishment in the Stirling area to receive the Eat Safe Award is extra special. We are grateful to Diane Hutchinson of Falkirk College and Christine Dick, our Environmental Health Officer, for their advice and encouragement.
"We are a small, eight bedroom guest house, providing bed and breakfasts, and so hopefully our success can encourage other small businesses in the Stirling area to attain the Eat Safe standard by demonstrating to them that whether they are a large or small establishment, their efforts will be recognised."
Peter Midgley, Head of the FSA's Local Authority Food Enforcement Branch, added: "It is great news that the first Stirling Council establishment has now received the Eat Safe Award - congratulations to Mr and Mrs Hughes.
"Since the scheme was launched in Scotland we have presented awards to more than 100 establishments the length and breadth of the country. Awareness of the scheme and what it represents is clearly continuing to grow on a national scale and we are confident this will continue throughout 2006."
Stirling Council's Convener of Environment Committee, Councillor Gillie Thomson, also expressed his delight at the Craigbuie Guest House's recent success.
He said: ""It is a great achievement for the Craigbuie Guest House to be the first in our area to receive this recognition. Stirling Council is dedicated to promoting excellent standards in food hygiene and we hope that there will be many more local recipients of the Eat Safe Award to follow in the coming weeks and months."
Thirty one of Scotland's 32 local authorities have given their backing to the Eat Safe scheme, launched after discussions between the FSAS, the Society of Chief Officers of Environmental Health of Scotland, the Scottish Food Advisory Committee (SFAC), Scottish Local Authorities and the FSA in Northern Ireland, where the scheme was launched in 2003.
Eligible establishments are assessed for the Eat Safe Award as part of scheduled food hygiene inspections carried out by environmental health services. The issue and control of certificates is regulated through local authorities and reviewed at every planned food hygiene inspection.
