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Dealing with the food enforcers
Food safety regulation is in the hands of environmental health officers, working regionally at a local government level. They spend a lot of time dealing with the food supply chain; making regular inspections, investigating complaints and monitoring phenomena such as outbreaks of food poisoning.
like any group, they range from the very good to the very bad. Typically they have considerable experience in safety at a food factory level, and enormous experience in trying to persuade not-so-good restaurants to clean up their act.
In all probability they will not understand haulage at all well— and you might not understand them. You will both be on unfamiliar territory; that gives scope for misunderstandings and trouble. As with other regulatory regimes, time spent getting to know the system now could save a lot of trouble in the future.
The good news about EHOs' unfamiliarity with transport is that they may bother you only very rarely. The bad news is that when they do, there is a lot of scope for them to misunderstand you or judge you against unfamiliar expectations.