The Food, Health and Safety Enforcement Team enforces infectious disease and other public health legislation. We do this by investigating around 200 food poisoning notifications each year, which are notified to us by the Public Health Laboratory or by GPs. We also investigate complaints from local residents who think they may have food poisoning.
Our Infectious Disease enforcement role includes
If you want to know more about any of these subjects, please contact us. We have a wide range of leaflets and other information.
Our main customer for these services is the Government, who require us to provide most of these services by law, and give instructions as to how the services should be delivered. The services are intended to protect anybody who becomes ill with food poisoning symptoms in the Torfaen area, and this will generally mean Torfaen residents, although we also work with other local authorities in respect of more widespread outbreaks. The more direct customers for our services are anybody making a complaint or a request for services, and, of course, the businesses that are affected by our enforcement action.
Food, Health and Safety Enforcement