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Shops should be required to display hygiene ratings, say experts

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It should be compulsory for convenience stores to display their food hygiene ratings, according to the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH). After last week’s BBC investigation into some premises displaying inaccurate ratings, the CIEH has called for a statutory food hygiene rating scheme in…

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