Editorial standards

What we publish

We publish the fact that an identified official agency served a particular type of order on a particular date, as recorded in an FSAI publication. We do not grade, rate or score businesses.

Accuracy

• Premises names, operator names and addresses are shown as they appear in the official record, without additions.
• Where the business at a premises and the operator served with the order differ, both are shown.
• Each record links to its official source document or archived copy where one is available.
• We do not reconstruct details the FSAI has removed or redacted.

Status and dates

• Every status carries the date of the source it comes from.
• An order is shown as lifted only when an FSAI publication gives a lifted date.
• When an order drops off the FSAI's list without a published lifted date, we say its current status has not been independently verified.
• We never describe a business as currently closed.

Selection

Records featured on social media are chosen for recency, completeness of the source record, verifiability and public interest, not because of any view about a particular business or person. Featured records are re-checked when their official status changes.

Corrections

See corrections and right of reply. Changes to records are dated and kept in a change history.