What SFBB is
Safer Food, Better Business is the Food Standards Agency's food safety management system for small food businesses in the UK. Paddl gives you a digital SFBB pack with AI-assisted setup and sign-off tracking, instead of a paper folder.
Availability: SFBB is a UK system. If your business country uses a different framework, you will see the equivalent food safety management tools in the same place.
Create your pack
Go to Food Safety > SFBB
Click Draft with Paddy. The button shows while a location has no pack yet
Paddy asks which site and period, then writes the pack from the active SFBB template and what Paddl already holds, such as your complaints, training, equipment, and pest control records
Each location has a pack of its own. If answers are still missing, Finish with Paddy on the pack asks you the questions it needs
Sections, assignment, and sign-off
A pack is organised into sections of fields and checklists. Open it to assign it (business-wide, by location, or to named users and groups) and to manage sign-off. Staff review the relevant sections and sign in the app, and the admin panel tracks who has and has not signed. Each pack carries a status of draft, active, archived, or expired.
Finding and signing your pack
Everything starts from Food Safety > SFBB, where each pack is listed with its status. A couple of things that trip people up:
Can't find the link to sign? Open the pack and click Sign Off in its header. It needs every field filled in or marked N/A first, and Paddl tells you which categories are incomplete. Manage Staff sets who else signs, and staff sign from the pack in the app once it is assigned to them.
Want a copy to keep or print? Include SFBB Packs when you generate an Audit Pack from Readiness. That is your downloadable, inspection-ready version.
Automatic regulatory updates
Paddl checks the FSA each week for changes to the SFBB templates. When a template changes, you are notified and can review what is different before applying the update and re-collecting sign-off, so your pack never quietly falls out of date.
From SFBB to daily routines
Cleaning and temperature sections in SFBB can generate matching routines so the things your pack promises actually appear as daily checks for staff. You can also export the pack to PDF for your records or an inspection.