FSA food establishment approval

Regulator registrations · awarded by Food Standards Agency / local authority · serves: Food safety consultants

Notices demanding it: 110; a floor
Said “must”: 8; explicit obligation
Open right now: 0
Value gated: £112m; a floor

Published values on the notices that demand it — a floor, not a total.

The demand curve

Notices demanding it per 10,000 published, by year — rate-normalised so corpus growth never masquerades as demand. Complete years only.

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The pale bars are 2025 onward. The Procurement Act went live on 24 February 2025 and changed how notices are written, so the step across that date is partly a change in convention and not only a change in demand. We have not measured how much of it is which, so please do not read this as a trend.

The receipts

Notices that demand it, and the sentence each demand was found in. Nothing is counted here without one.

Food Safety & Standards Inspections Servicesmandatory
Leicester City Council
Each establishment has a rating and is required, through legislation, to be submitted to the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
RA352085 - On Site Cateringmandatory
LondonEnergy Ltd
The Supplier shall comply with all relevant The Food Law Code of Practice (England) (the Code) is issued under Section 40(1) of The Food Safety Act 1990 written by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and operate in a diligent manner to good practice.
Provision of Catering Services for an On-Site Cafemandatory
South Wales Police
The successful Contractor is required to have a food hygiene rating of at least 4 with the Food Standards Agency.
2294-18 Provision of Scientific Advisory and Analytical Servicesmandatory
East Riding of Yorkshire
To ensure compliance with the Food Law Code of Practice (England) Tenderers must be a Public Analyst with a laboratory suitably accredited for the purposes of analysing these samples and must appear on the list of official food control laboratories published on the Food Standards Agency's website.
Provision of Catering Services for an On-Site Cafe at South Wales Police HQmandatory
SOUTH WALES POLICE
The successful Contractor is required to have a food hygiene rating of at least 4 with the Food Standards Agency.
002/2017 Provision of Catering Outletmandatory
HE Portal
The successful Contractor is required to have a food hygiene rating of at least 4 with the Food Standards Agency within 6 months.
Supply of Polypropylene Food Containersmandatory
COUNTY DURHAM AND DARLINGTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Organisations must comply with all Food Standards Agency and local Environmental Health Officer requirements for food safe food containers.
4-year Fellowship - endpoint toxicity for a mixture of chemicals
Food Standards Agency
This research programme covers one of the FSAs Areas of research interest | Food Standards Agency (ARI) and sits under research priority two: chemical, radiological, and food hypersensitivity risks.
System Rheoli Achosion Gwarchod y Cyhoedd | Public Protection Case Management System
Isle of Anglesey County Council
Food Standards Agency - six monthly returns
Expressions of interest for forming and entering into a Joint Venture to deliver a profitable Café and Catering Operation within the Town Hall
Lowestoft Town Council
1 : A documented Health and Safety Policy plus current Food Hygiene rating from the Food Standards Agency.
The Swale - Shellfish Quality Monitoring
Swale Borough Council
The contract will involve the service provider collecting samples of shellfish and water in accordance with the current Food Standards Agency (FSA) and The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) relevant documents, including the Protocol for the Collection of Shellfish under the Microbiologic…
RDE888 - Provision of statutory shellfish monitoring services for Scotland, Engl
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Provision of statutory official controls shellfish chemical contaminants monitoring services on behalf of Cefas for Food Standards Scotland (FSS) and Food Standards Agency (FSA) England and Wales, as detailed in Appendix 1 including: 1) Provision of 2026 Official Control monitoring services for FSS chemical contaminant…

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Method: Every count here is a floor. We match the text of the notice, and a notice description is a summary — most tender packs demand things it never mentions.“Said must” counts only explicit obligation language in the matched sentence itself; anything ambiguous is counted as a mention, never as mandatory. Trend compares rates per 10,000 notices per complete calendar year.