Starting a food business
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Plan and register a food business, then set up the required food safety procedures.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 19
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Official guidance for preparing, registering and running a food business, including local authority registration and food safety procedures.
Contents
- Getting ready to start your food business
- Planning before you start your food business
- Who needs to register
- Guidance on how to register your food business with your local authority
- When to register
- Selling food from customer-facing premises
- Selling food from home
- Selling food from mobile or temporary premises
- Selling food online
- Registering as a childminder
- Checklist: things to consider before starting a food business
- Planning
- Registration
- Permissions
- Register as self employed
- Set up food safety procedures
Source and licence
Food Standards Agency
AttributionFood Standards Agency, ‘Starting a food business’ (updated 19 August 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
- v1.016/09/2026