Safer Food Better Business and digital food safety systems: what is the difference?
Safer Food Better Business is Food Standards Agency guidance for smaller food businesses in England and Wales. A digital food safety system is a separate way of configuring, operating and evidencing food-safety controls.
Start with the distinction
SFBB is official guidance. Digital systems are separate products.
Safer Food Better Business is Food Standards Agency guidance that sets out food-safety management procedures for smaller businesses. Its packs cover areas including cross-contamination, cleaning, chilling, cooking, management and use of the diary.
FSA guidance and packs.
- A practical HACCP-based approach
- Food-safety procedures for smaller businesses
- Business-specific packs
- Paper or electronic diary pages
- Review and updating remain important
Software for operating and evidencing controls.
- Site configuration
- Daily operational controls
- Corrective-action workflow
- Attributable digital records
- Management visibility and review
What changes in a connected system
The control and its evidence stay together.
HACCP Made Simple is a separate commercial product. It connects the configured FSMS with daily operation, corrective actions, attributable evidence and management oversight in one system.
Choosing software does not transfer responsibility for food safety. The business still needs to configure, operate and review its procedures correctly.
