The government have made recommendation on the introduction of Industry Codes of Practice and introduced stricter legislation on food hygiene in "The Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995" (revised 2004). These regulations and guidance are common sense to anyone who thinks about the products we handle but we may not have thought about the detail. Bob Robinson our Librarian has produced a "Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Point" (HACCP pronounced hasp) document that may be suitable for most small scale beekeepers. haccp.pdf

The Food Standards Agency have also produces a useful booklet "Food hygiene ~ A guide for businesses "

The Scottish Beekeepers' Association Have thought about the subject for beekeepers' and have produced an excellent web site covering that detail. Anyone selling their honey to the public or even giving it away to friends and family should take a look at some of the documents. (The website seems to have lost its webmaster and so has lost some of its links, the documents produced by them are for the moment available from my archive, see below) it is worth a few minutes and easy to save to print out later

Code of practice 1 (code_of_practice1.pdf 624kB)
Code of practice 2 (code_of_practice2.pdf 442kB)
Code of practice 3 (code_of_practice3.pdf 291kB)
Code of practice 4 (code_of_practice4.pdf 433kB)
Code of practice 5 (code_of_practice5.pdf 430kB)
Scottish Beekeepers' Association