Home Essentials

Hitchin

Food hygiene rating Exempt

Exempt from rating

Home Essentials in Hitchin is exempt from needing to be hygiene rated.

What does this rating mean?

Home Essentials in Hitchin is exempt from needing a hygiene rating. This happens when a business has been checked by a food safety officer and met the pass criteria, but does not fit the rating scheme itself.

Usually these businesses are low risk, and often they are not really a “food business” at all - think newsagents, chemists or visitor centres that happen to sell the odd biscuit.

Where is it?

2 Churchgate,
Hitchin,
Hertfordshire,
SG5 1DN

This is the official Food Standards Agency hygiene badge for Home Essentials. The data is published by the FSA under the Open Government Licence.

Who inspects Home Essentials?

Food hygiene at Home Essentials is inspected by North Hertfordshire, the local authority responsible for this area. You can reach them at http://www.north-herts.gov.uk or [email protected].

Questions about Home Essentials

What is Home Essentials’s food hygiene rating?

Home Essentials in Hitchin is exempt from needing to be hygiene rated.

What do the food hygiene scores mean?

The rating combines three checks made on the day of the inspection: how hygienically food is handled, the cleanliness and condition of the premises, and how confident the inspector is that management will keep standards up. A higher overall score, from 0 up to 5, means fewer problems were found.