Food safety in your language

Food safety advice in the UK is almost all in English

Food poisoning is common and easy to prevent. But more than a million people in England and Wales can't speak English well, or at all, and the advice that would stop it is in English. We make free, simple and visual flyers in the languages people speak at home.

2.4 million

cases of food poisoning in the UK every year

Food Standards Agency estimate
1 million+

people in England and Wales can't speak English well, or at all

Census 2021
0

current official UK guides to food safety at home in any language except English and Welsh

Our research, November 2026

Choose your flyer For councils and organisations

Read our mission

Four simple steps

Most food poisoning can be stopped at home.

Choose your flyer

Pick a flyer, then your language. Each flyer is one A5 page.

Keep food safe at home

For families and anyone cooking at home. Four steps: clean, cook, chill, keep apart.

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Cooking for others

For food banks, community kitchens and volunteers. Temperatures, cleaning, allergens and donated food.

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Running a food business

For people starting a food business. Registering, keeping records, allergen labels and hygiene ratings.

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The 14 allergens

The foods that businesses must tell you about, on the label or when you ask. See the list

For councils

Free to print, link to and share with residents, food businesses and partners. Flyers in up to 20 languages, accessible and ready to print.

How councils can use Clean Hands

Food banks and community groups