11/08/2026
Your business obligations
Insurance – Certification must be authorised by RISCAuthority and recognised by your insurance company.
Law – Your business has legal requirement Regulation EC852/2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs Annex II.
FSA – Food Standard Agency state, Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995 – ventilation and any other equipment must be visually clean and in a good state of repair. The amount and type of cleaning needed will relate to the area of the premises and the use to which it is put.
BESCA is the recognised industry standard for ventilation hygiene – BESA Guide to Good Practice TR19®, Internal Cleanliness of Ventilation Systems and the new Specification for TR19® Grease, Fire Risk Management of Grease Accumulation within Kitchen Extraction Systems.
TR19®Grease or TR19® Internal Cleanliness of a Ventilation System
TR19®Grease is a stand-alone specification dedicated to businesses within the commercial kitchen environment, for Fire Risk Management.
TR19® Grease, is a new, stand-alone specification for Fire Risk Management of Grease Accumulation within Kitchen Extraction Systems. For any works that require compliance with the TR19® Grease specification, it must be expressly stated in any tender documents/ contracts that TR19® Grease applies, in addition to TR19®, to ensure the correct services carried out for compliance.
TR19® is a trademark of Building Engineering Services Competence Assessment Limited (BESCA).
To ensure you are compliant use a VHE Member for all your Commercial Kitchen Grease duct cleaning the only way to ensure you are TR19®Grease Compliant.
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