We are committed to protecting your personal data and ensuring that it is processed fairly and lawfully. Information you provide to us will be processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) and subsequent legislation. For the purposes of Data Protection, Dudley MBC is the Data Controller.
We are the Food team, part of Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council’s Environmental Health and Trading Standards service. We are part of the Health and Wellbeing Service delivered within the People Directorate.
The Food team’s role is to ensure food produced, handled or sold within the Dudley Borough is safe to eat and correctly labelled. We do this by:
We also inspect food premises for compliance with health & safety legislation and enforce the smoke free requirements for all premises in the borough.
For more information about our services please see the Dudley Council website.
If you are a food business operator (FBO), when we register/approve your business we collect the following information from you:
If you are making a complaint about food or a food business or you are requesting advice we collect the following information:
When we investigate cases of infectious disease (including food poisoning), we collect the following information:
We collect information from you in the following ways:
Our legal basis for data processing comes from Articles 6 and 9 of GDPR.
Legal obligation - Article 6 (1) (c) - processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.
Public task - Article 6 (1) (e) – processing is necessary for us to perform a task carried out in the public interest or for our official functions.
When we investigate infectious disease, the lawful basis for processing is under Article 6 (1) (e), public task, and Article 9- processing is necessary for reasons of public interest in the area of public health.
Legislation enforced by the service includes:
The information we collect is used for the following purposes:
Details of food businesses and food business operators may be shared with the Food Standards Agency, the independent government department responsible for food safety.
Under prescribed circumstances, for example the prevention and detection of crime or for tax collection purposes, we may share food business or FBO personal information with:
We share personal details relating to cases of infectious disease with Public Health England.
We are committed to protecting personal data and have data policies and procedures in place to ensure that it is safeguarded. Contact information is held securely on the database service used. All staff undertake regular training in data protection and managing personal information.
Information is kept in accordance with our retention policy. After we deliver a service to you, we keep your information as a business record of what was delivered. The retention period is 7 years.
Personal information processed outside the European Economic Community (EU)
We do not process your personal information outside the EU unless you specifically request us to do so, for example on an export certificate.
At no time will your information be passed to organisations external to us or our partners for marketing or sales purposes or for any commercial use without your prior express consent.
Your rights are detailed in the Council’s Corporate Privacy Notice http://www.dudley.gov.uk/privacy-disclaimer-statement/
Should you wish to raise any concerns about how we have processed your personal data you can contact the data protection officer, email information.governance@dudley.gov.uk
You also have the right to contact the Information Commissioner.
If you would like a copy of this information in a different format, please email information.governance@dudley.gov.uk