During the Food Standards Agency’s National Food Safety Week from 6 – 12 June, food safety officers from Bassetlaw District Council’s Environmental Health Team ran a free public quiz from market stalls in Worksop and Retford. People who correctly completed a quiz sheet were entered into a draw to win prizes donated by local food businesses.

Winners from Retford are Mrs Old, who received a meal voucher from The Mussel and Crab Restaurant in Tuxford, Helen Wilson, who won a meal voucher from Retford’s Kiwi Cafe and Dawn Sheree Warrener, who took home a bottle of wine and a voucher for Deli & Dine, Retford.

Mr Reah, of Tuxford won a voucher from Mellor’s Meats in Milton, Tracey Jervais of Ranby received a meal voucher from Kashmir Tandoori in Worksop and a meal voucher for Worksop’s The Dukeries Cafe went to Sharon Garner from Manton.

Cllr Julie Leigh, Portfolio Holder for Environment and Leisure said:

“It’s appropriate that the standards of food hygiene of all the food businesses who so generously made prizes available were all highly rated when they were last inspected. The Council’s Food Hygiene Rating scheme aims to reassure people that the places where they eat out or buy food practise good food hygiene. It’s just as important for people to do the same in their own homes.

“Every year in the UK up to 100,000 people suffer from a food borne illness and the source of most of these infections is actually what happens in the home. The quiz aimed to highlight what we do or shouldn’t do in in our kitchens at home and promote good food safety. “

Food Safety Week is an annual event held to promote the importance of good food hygiene in the home. This year the theme was “Behind closed doors.

National Food Safety week is organised by the Food Standards Agency working in partnership with the Council’s Environmental Health Officers.