Buying and Storing Food For Packed Lunches
When buying and storing food, it is important to bear the principles of food safety and hygiene in mind
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Food Hygiene For Packed Lunches
When making a packed lunch, it is more important than ever to ensure you take all precautions to minimise the amount of bacteria .
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Novel Food Regulations
In today’s hyper-scientific and overprotective society, it is easy to forget that there are still unknown and potentially harmful ingredients that can make their way into our food. For this reason, we have the Novel Food and Novel Food Ingredients Regulations 1997 to protect us from food and ingredients that the FSA hasn’t deemed safe [...]
Who Needs To Register Under the Food Hygiene Legislation?
Since the start of 2006, there have been new food hygiene laws in place that affect all food-related businesses, including primary producers. It is very important that anybody that has any dealing with food investigate whether they need to register their premise with the local authorities. If your company has anything to do with food, [...]
Bacteria Bite Video
Behold; an 8-minute video produced by the Food Standards Agency to demonstrate the importance of the 4 Cs of Food Hygiene that were discussed in the last post during Food Safety Week 2o09. In case you have forgotten, the 4 Cs are: Cooking Cleaning Chilling Cross-Contamination So technically it is the 5 Cs, but 4 [...]
Product Recall: Heinz Mum’s Own Spaghetti Bolognese baby food
After concerns that it might contain tiny pieces of plastic, Heinz is set to recall all its mum’s own spaghetti bolognese baby food tomorrow because of the choking hazard. Recalling is different to withdrawing; where the latter is simply taking the product off the shelves, the former involves the company genuinely requesting that everybody who [...]
The Dangers of Listeria
All this week is Food Safety week – promoting the importance of good food hygiene in the home. This year the focus is on food hygiene advice for the over 60s; a group that are particularly vulnerable, especially to the perils of food poisoning that arises from failure to store and handle food correctly. As [...]
Avoiding Food Poisoning 4
We have reached the end of the helpful hints to avoid food poisoning posts – a sad day. The final point is a reminder to take extra care when preparing food for old people, babies, pregnant women and people who are already unwell. These people are especially susceptible to food poisoning and more likely to [...]
Food Safety Week 2009
All this week – from the 15th to the 21st of July – is Food Safety week; promoting the importance of good food hygiene in the home. This year the focus is on food hygiene advice for the over 60s; a group that are particularly vulnerable, especially to the perils of food poisoning that arises [...]
Avoiding Food Poisoning 3
Last time we learnt that food needs to be stored properly to be safe. Whilst everything in the last post was true, there is an important principle which must be remembered at all times when storing food – the principle of drippage! Raw food – especially meat – is home to a variety of bacteria [...]