Data & licensing

Attribution

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Food hygiene rating data © Food Standards Agency / Crown copyright.

The food hygiene rating data presented on HygieneCheck is provided by the Food Standards Agency and is made available under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The original source is the FSA’s food hygiene ratings service at ratings.food.gov.uk, published as open data at ratings.food.gov.uk/open-data.

What the Open Government Licence allows

The OGL is a permissive licence that allows the public sector information to be copied, published, distributed, adapted and combined with other data, including for commercial use, provided the source is acknowledged with the attribution statement above. The full terms are set out by The National Archives at the link above. HygieneCheck complies with that attribution requirement on every page and on this page in full.

Scope of use on this site

• We display each rating as published by the FSA; we do not alter, recolour or redraw the official rating badges.
• We compute aggregate statistics (counts, distributions and FHRS-only averages) from the underlying data. These derived figures are ours, but they are produced solely from the licensed public data.
• We refresh from the source daily, but there may be a short lag between a council publishing a change and it appearing here.

Not verified, not affiliated

HygieneCheck does not independently verify or audit the ratings — inspections are carried out by local authorities to the FSA standard, and we present their published results. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Food Standards Agency, any local authority or any government body. The FSA and local authorities are the authoritative source; where our copy and the official record differ, the official record at ratings.food.gov.uk takes precedence.

For how we ingest and process the data, see our methodology. To query or correct a rating, see correct a listing.