This is an extract of the Food Hygiene Ratings Scheme (FHRS) dataset from the Food Standards Agency, covering the whole of the United Kingdom.

The data was extracted on 16 October 2021 from this location:

https://data.food.gov.uk/catalog/datasets/38dd8d6a-5ab1-4f50-b753-ab33288e3200

Data published by the Food Standards Agency is made available under the Open Government Licence, version 3. 

Users of this data are free to:

- copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information;
- adapt the Information;
- exploit the Information commercially and non-commercially for example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application.

I am sharing this data extract as an example of an interesting open dataset that you can do interesting things with.

More information about the Food Hygiene Ratings scheme dataset is provided below.

Food Hygiene Rating Scheme data
The data provides the food hygiene rating or inspection result given to a business and reflect the standards of food hygiene found on the date of inspection or visit by the local authority. Businesses include restaurants, pubs, cafés, takeaways, hotels and other places consumers eat, as well as supermarkets and other food shops.

The data are held on behalf of local authorities participating in either the Food Standards Agency's:

national Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, or
the Food Hygiene Information Scheme (FHIS) in Scotland
Data are only available for local authority areas running either of these schemes.

Guidance on using the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme API

Food Hygiene Rating Scheme data

Alasdair Rae
27 October 2021