The Food Safety Programme, a joint effort by SPRING Singapore, the Restaurant Association of Singapore and the National Environment Agency, helps F&B outlets adopt and implement the HACCP international food safety standard.

Lead Agency	SPRING Singapore (SPRING)
Partner Agency	National Environment Agency (NEA)
Industry Partner	Restaurant Association of Singapore (RAS)
Launch Date	21 April 2006

Aims

1. To establish Singapore as a gourmet capital in the region with high quality food that meets international food safety standards.
   
   
2. To prepare F&B businesses who wish to expand into overseas markets which require food safety compliance (e.g. America, Australia and Europe).

For who?

• For all small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the F&B sector.
  
  
• Your business is considered a SME if:
  
  
  • 30%-100% of your shareholding is local
  • your fixed assets are worth S$0-S$15M*
  • you have 0-200 employees (for non-manufacturing companies)*

*Computed on a group basis. Where 20%-100% of your shares are owned by other companies, the total value of your fixed assets and employees is calculated three levels up. Where your company owns 51%-100% of another company (subsidiary), your subsidiary's fixed assets and employees will also be added to the computation.

For what?

• You can take part in this programme to implement food safety based on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) – an international food safety standard.
  
  
• Implementing food safety helps you to:
  
  
  • identify key points in operations where stringent control is needed for food safety
  • put in place controls to monitor procedures and ensure elimination of biological, chemical and physical hazards in food
    
    
• As part of the process, you will implement:
  
  
  • safe food handling procedures for purchasing, receiving, storing, preparing and serving food
    
    
  • measures to prevent cross-contamination between cooked and uncooked food, and exposure to environmental contamination

How much?

• The Food Safety Programme funds up to 50% of the qualifying costs arising from the implementation