The annual Food Safety Week is the point in the calendar for highlighting the importance of food safety and the basic principles of food hygiene.

The Food Standards Agency is now the lead partner in Food Safety Week which this year will take place from Monday 9 June to Friday 13 June 2008. The theme of the UK-wide campaign is "GermWatch", designed to raise awareness of good food hygiene practice especially the 4Cs (Cleaning, Cooking, Chilling and avoiding Cross-contamination).

The continuing success of Food Safety Week is a credit to those people operating at local level throughout the UK. These event organisers create imaginative, innovative and attention grabbing activities with literally hundreds of events organised each year involving thousands of people.

Event organizers are predominantly environmental health departments, health promotion and infection control teams in hospitals, schools and companies. But everyone can get involved and this website provides a wide range of ready-to-use resources for you to use to help make your event a great success.

Media enquiries: Please contact the Food and Drink Federation press office on tel: 020 7420 7132 or email pressoffice@fdf.org.uk.