CHEFS Award

Last updated: 20/05/2013 Add to My Bookmarks Subscribe

Look out for this distinctive blue logo in food businesses throughout Cornwall and you’ll find among others, restaurants, cafes and hotels where healthier eating and food safety and standards matter.

CHEFS Re-launch March 2011 The Cornwall Healthier Eating and Food Safety (CHEFS) Award was launched at the Eden Project in October 2005. It is awarded by the food safety and trading standards officers at Cornwall Council working in partnership with the Health Promotion Service and the Healthy Weight Programme (both part of NHS Cornwall). It has three levels, namely the prestigious gold, silver and bronze and was recently re-launched at Trelissick Gardens when over 100 food business representatives attended.

Nearly 100 food businesses in Cornwall have achieved the CHEFS award, each having to demonstrate the highest possible standards of food hygiene, offer healthy options on their menus and source some Cornish ingredients in order to qualify for it.

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The aim of the scheme is to:

reduce food borne infection
reduce levels of obesity/excess weight
increase food sustainability
increase economic impact of Cornish food industry
recognise and reward caterers who adopt and maintain a high degree of food safety and standards as well as offering their customers healthier options/choices on menus.

The award links with several national and local documents on health including:

The CHEFS award has received national recognition on the food-vision website which aims to promote safe, sustainable and nutritious food to improve local community health and well-being.

If a business is successful in gaining an award they will get a certificate and window sticker to display. They will also be added to a list of current winners which will be displayed on our website (see who’s got one?)