MCA UPDATE: How often should I update my food safety/hygiene certification?

YachtChefs.com contacted the MCA to ask them how often chefs need to update their food safety or food hygiene certificates?

The answer as below is they recoomend every 5 years..

Dear YachtChefs.com

Thank you for your e-mail.  Best practice is that Food Safety should be renewed to a minimum of every 5 years.

Kind regards

Denise

(Condensed working hours: Monday – Thursday)

 

Denise Cooke

Seafarers Manager

+44 (0) 203 90 85210

UK Ship Register

denise.cooke@mcga.gov.uk

ukshipregister.co.uk

Maritime & Coastguard Agency

Anchor Court

Keen Road

Cardiff

CF24 5JW

         

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