A number of cafés, pubs, restaurants and takeaways in 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: 
The Foresters Arms in Abbotswell Road, Frogham, Fordingbridge was given the score after assessment on May 14, the Food Standards Agency's website shows. 

Rated 4: 

The Crown Inn, in High Street, Fordingbridge was handed a four-out-of-five rating after assessment on May 16.

Rated 5:  

Cafe Mallard in Osborne House, Station Road, New Milton was rated on June 8 

Needles Eye Cafe in Hurst Road, Milford-On-Sea, Lymington was rated on June 8 

New Milton Conservative Club in Station Road, New Milton was rated on June 15