Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

When it comes to maintaining standards of food hygiene, knowledge is essential.

Tags: Food Hygiene, Food Poisoning, Food Safety

One of the key ways to prevent the spread of microorganisms is maintaining high levels of food hygiene, both in the kitchen and on your person.

Tags: Food Hygiene, Food Poisoning, Food Safety

Although the most serious kinds of food poisoning are caused by bacteria, it’s very easy to kill them off before eating – by simply cooking your food properly! The essential thing to bear in mind when cooking food is that bacteria cannot survive above a certain temperature.

Tags: bacteria, cooking food, Food Hygiene, Food Poisoning, Food Safety

Far more people are familiar with the symptoms of food poisoning – cramps, vomiting, diarrhoea and nausea – than with what actually causes the illness.

Tags: bacteria, Food Hygiene, Food Poisoning, Food Safety

I expect most readers will have had food poisoning in their time, or known somebody who has. In fact, with 80,000 people reporting cases of food suffering every year, it’s far more prevalent than many people realise.

Tags: Food Hygiene, food hygiene training course, Food Poisoning, Food Safety

This week the Food Standards Agency will dicuss proposals for a unified, but flexible system of FOP labelling that will require manufacturers and retailers to use a combination of effective labelling techniques.

Tags: food labelling, fop, FSA

The list of product ranges and companies whose products do not contain the six food colours associated with hyperactivity in children has been updated today.

Tags: Cocoa Loco, Dartmoor Kitchen, Essential Cuisine, food colouring, hyperactivity, Orexis Fresh Foods Ltd, Tom's Pies