Keeping Food Safe Flashcards
What are the rules for personal hygiene?
- Wash hands regularly
- Avoid handling food when you are unwell to prevent bacteria contaminating food
- Cover cuts, sores and burns with clean dressing or blue plasters and change regularly
- Wear a clean apron
- Remove jewellery before preparing food
- Avoid touching hair and tie back long hair when preparing food
What are the rules when purchasing food?
- Observe personal hygiene standards of staff when handling and serving food
- Report unhygienic practices to store management
- Check the chilled and frozen food cabinets are operating at the correct temps and are not overloading
- Buy chilled and frozen foods last and pack in an insulated bag
- Get chilled and frozen products home and stored quickly
- Pack raw foods and fruit and veg away from ready cooked foods
- Pack foods that bruise or damage easily above other foods
- Don’t buy cans or packs of food that have been damaged
- Don’t buy raw foods from counters where raw and cooked foods are displayed and stored together
- Don’t buy foods that have exceeded the ‘use by’ date
What are the rules for use by date?
Appears on labels of high risk foods. These foods go off quickly and generally must be stored in a fridge or freezer.
The coldest part of a fridge should be at no more than 5* and a freezer should be -18* or below
Food must be eaten by the use by date. After this food is likely to…
Become unsafe to eat and can cause food poisoning
Where do best before dates usually appear?
On the label of low risk foods that can be safely stored in a cupboard
What may unpasteurised milk be contaminated with?
Salmonella and listeria
What is unpasteurised cheese contaminated with?
Listeria
What may shellfish be contaminated with?
Salmonella
What may uncooked eggs be contaminated with?
Salmonella
