We carry out consultations on food and feed safety standards and nutrition policy development. Find and take part in the consultations that interest you.
Consultations
Have your say on the food and feed consultations that affect you
What is a consultation?
A consultation is a way to invite people to share their views on an issue to help inform decision making.
Consultations are generally open to the public and designed to ask for views from anyone who may have a particular interest in the policy under consideration.
Find a consultation
All our consultations are published on Citizen Space, our dedicated consultation hub. Here you can find both open and closed consultations. You can also read about the outcomes of recent consultations in the 'We Asked, You Said, We Did' section.
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Engaging with consultations
Input from stakeholders who may be affected by any policy or legislative change is key to the consultation and impact assessment process.
Consultations allow us to make sure that consumers, food and feed businesses, and the enforcement and scientific communities can engage in a constructive and meaningful way on the development of food safety standards and nutrition policy. Consultations may also be accompanied by draft Business and Regulatory Impact Assessments.
Policy development process
Engagement with stakeholders is a key part of the policy development process. Good decision-making means:
- consulting people who may be affected by decisions before taking them
- having good information on which to take decisions and taking decisions based on that information
- recording decisions and the reasons for them, and
- making decisions and the reasons for them publicly available
Our approach to decision making is set out in the Food (Scotland) Act 2015.
Consultation responses
Consultations will be open for responses for a set time. After the consultation has closed, we’ll publish our response to the consultation showing how the responses received have affected our decision-making process.
Novel food consultations
A consultation process (also known as an Article 4 request) is available to businesses who are unsure of the novel food status of their product.