Community bake offs back on, confirms FSA
Howard Lake | 6 September 2013 | News
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has confirmed that there is no ban on charity supporters or groups baking cakes or making jam and selling them at a school fete or charity event.
It has ruled that community cake and bake sales are not covered by EU food hygiene laws. These included requiring cooks to hold food hygiene certificates. Concerns about these obligations had put some charity supporters off baking and selling cakes and jam at fundraising events.
The FSA advises that “Homemade cakes should be safe to eat, as long as the people who make them follow good food hygiene advice and the cakes are stored and transported safely.” It gives some advice on how to prepare, store and transport such produce safely. It lists other advice for volunteers and community groups.
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Charities can now have their cakes and income from them.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.