Des smileys pour indiquer l'hygiène des établissements!

Restaurateurs and professionals of the food industry, a regulatory text of December 15, 2016 organizing the publication of official control results in terms of food safety has just been applied since March 1, 2017, and the results are now available for consultation by your customers since April 03, 2017.

ALIMCONFIANCE, new regarding hygiene in restaurants!

The sanitary controls carried out by the State in restaurants, canteens or even slaughterhouses are from now on put on line and accessible to all, thus allowing the consumers anxious to know what is in their plates to know the global hygiene of an establishment.

What is the principle and the advantage of this new device?

The main positive point is that the rating system has been simplified by the public authorities, in order to provide clear, accessible and understandable information to everyone at a glance.

It is true that the complete reports made following official controls are often difficult to understand and interpret for the consumer not working in the food sector.

Thus, these official reports have been transformed into 4 smiley face pictograms, which will quickly and accurately summarize the results according to their level of satisfaction.

The device will also aim to encourage professionals to improve the hygiene levels of their establishment, if they do not want to be shunned by their customers, who will prefer to go to better rated restaurants.

What do these smileys mean?

The pictograms represent 4 smileys representing the level of hygiene of the establishment:

1/ Very satisfactory: facilities with no or only minor non-compliances.

2/ Satisfactory: establishments with non-compliances that do not justify the adoption of administrative police measures, but to which the administrative authority sends a letter reminding them of the regulations in order to improve their practices

3/ To be improved: an establishment where the operator has been given notice to take corrective measures within a time limit set by the administrative authority and which leads to a new inspection by the State services to verify the implementation of these corrective measures

4/ A corriger de manière urgente: establishments presenting non-compliances likely to endanger the health of the consumer and for which the administrative authority orders the administrative closure, the withdrawal, or the suspension of the sanitary approval

In case of bad classification, an administrative closure can be required by the authorities.

How to consult the results?

A website ALIMCONFIANCE and an application on smartphone are now available and allow to know already the level of hygiene of more than 1500 establishments, and eventually of more than 55000 professionals. 

Consult the data HERE !

This way, all customers can find out if their favorite restaurant or supermarket meets the health standards of the Ministry of Agriculture.

This concerns all establishments in the food chain, not only restaurants, but also canteens, supermarkets, but also slaughterhouses, agri-food industries, farm sales...

Two objectives for the Ministry of Agriculture: transparency for the consumer and improvement of the sanitary level by the professionals.

In Europe, 8 countries, including the United Kingdom and Belgium, have already made the results of their controls transparent, but this system does not please everyone, and in particular certain restaurant owners, even if nothing obliges them for the moment to display the rating at the entrance of their establishment.