Food Standards Agency · retired
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme – AI
"The aim of this tool is to help local authorities manage the hygiene inspection of food establishments. It supports local authorities to prioritise which businesses to inspect by predicting which might be at a higher risk of non-compliance with food hygiene regulations."
Publicly known
- Owner: Food Standards Agency
- Vendor: Cognizant Worldwide Limited
Undisclosed
- Model architecture
- Model performance benchmarks
- Training data provenance
Who is actually being paid
Cognizant Worldwide Limited
07195160Role
Cognizant, in collaboration with the FSA’s Strategic Surveillance Team and Regulatory Compliance Division, and numerous Local Authorities were involved in the creation of the FHRS AI system.. This involved:
Data access terms
Cognizant employees (and other subsequent data service providers) have access to secure FSA devices with their own login credentials. Access to any internal data is governed by contractual agreements between the FSA and the data service providers. The data is stored in a secure government cloud and access is managed by the FSA security team. In this particular case, the majority of data used to enable the system is from 2011 UK Census data and from the HERE API. This is data that can be publicly accessed by anyone free of charge. Information about an establishment’s Food Hygiene ratings are also readily available online.
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