A NUMBER of cafés, pubs, restaurants and takeaways across Dorset and the New Forest have been handed new food hygiene ratings recently.    

Each week, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) inspects businesses across the country, assessing hygiene and safety, structural compliance and confidence in management.        

Across the UK, every food outlet including convenience stores, restaurants, hospitals and care homes are given a hygiene rating.    

What each hygiene rating means:      

0 - Urgent improvement necessary      

1 - Major improvement necessary    

2 - Some improvement necessary        

3 - Hygiene standards generally satisfactory          

4 - Hygiene standards good       

5 - Hygiene standards very good            

Here is a roundup of scores given by the FSA this week:   

Rated 1: 

Ginali's in High Street, Poole was given the score after assessment on August 29, the Food Standards Agency's website shows. 

Roma Italian Delicatessen in Church Street, Christchurch was given a score of one on August 28. 

Fortune Palace in Yeovil Road, Over Compton, Dorset was rated on August 22  

Rated 2: 

Papa's Food Hub, at 34 Hill Street, Poole was handed a two-out-of-five rating after assessment on August 28. 

Wellington in Osborne Road, New Milton was given the score after assessment on August 22 

Rated 4: 

Waterloo Arms in Pikes Hill, Lyndhurst was given the score after assessment on August 27 

Durley Inn in Durley Chine, Bournemouth was given the score after assessment on August 22 

China City in East Street, Blandford Forum was rated on August 22 

East End Arms in Lymington Road, East End, Lymington was handed a four-out-of-five rating after assessment on August 21. 

Rated 5: 

Le Blaireau Bar and Bistro in Lyndhurst Road, Brockenhurst was given a score of five on September 20.