Food business registration
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You must register with your local authority to run a food business.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 3
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
You must register with your local authority to run a food business. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Overview
- Who needs to register
- Registering as a childminder
- Registering as a food bank or charity
- England, Wales and Northern Ireland
- Scotland
Source and licence
Food Standards Agency
AttributionFood Standards Agency, ‘Food business registration’ (updated 25 June 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026