WHAT IS FOOD HYGIENE?

It’s purpose is to preserve health by:

Reducing the risk of producing harmful food

Preventing infestations by pests like flies, mice for example.

Good practices which lead to clean workplaces and the safe production of food

Why learn about Food Hygiene?

There are 1000’s of cases of food poisoning a year which result in up to 40 deaths a year!

Poor hygiene can also lead to:

• Food wastage

• Infestation by pests

• Loss of customers and profit

• Legal action against you or the firm you work for.

• Who carries out this legal action??

Chinatown restaurants in hotpot over poor hygiene

The owner of a Melbourne Chinatown restaurant has been fined $40,000 for food, cooking and hygiene conditions a magistrate said "you would not find in a kennel".

Magistrate Lesley Fleming was "sickened" by photographs which showed live and dead cockroaches and rodent droppings.

In 2004, 2 brothers were each fined $10,000 after a customer found a dead cockroach in his meal.

They pleaded guilty to 11 charges that included failing to protect food from contamination and failing to prevent the harbourage of pests.

Restaurant fined for poor hygiene

The owners of a popular Chinese restaurant in Hull have been fined for having poor food hygiene practices.

China Palace Restaurants Ltd, which operates Mr Chu's China Palace at St Andrew's Quay, was fined a total of £8,000 for a range of offences.

During a routine inspection by environmental health officers in September, a number of issues were found including poor cooling practices, with large quantities of duck being found cooling for several hours, risk of cross contamination between foods and no hot water for hand-washing

and cleaning.

A risk of cross contamination was found during a routine inspection

COCKROACH-RIDDEN SNACK BAR FINED A sandwich bar in central London infested by cockroaches has beenFined £2,500 for poor hygiene. Dead cockroaches were found ontakeaway bags and live ones were found throughout the Bar, acourt heard.

Council officers told the court they found "poor cleaning, poor repair,poor personal hygiene and poor pest control". A fridge was found to"black with dirt", while inadequately trained staff failed to wash theirhands during busy periods. The cafe in Buckingham Palace Road wasordered to pay costs of £2,582.

Curry house fined for poor hygiene

During a routine hygiene inspection on the 7 November 2005,

environmental health officers had to immediately close down the

restaurant after finding evidence of rat droppings in the kitchen. The

restaurant was allowed to re-open two days later once they had satisfied

officers that all work relating to pest proofing and cleaning had been done.

However due to the serious nature of this offence and severe public health

implications the Shimla Balti House Limited was taken to court and was

fined £7,000 plus £1276 costs.

Environmental health officers successfully take Shimla Balti House Limited to court for breaches of food hygiene legislation.

Contamination

Physical – insects, dust, paper, metal

Chemical – Cleaning chemicals, pesticides

Microbial – food poisoning bacteriaMost common cause

PHOTOGRAPH EXERCISE

You are the manager of a food business and are carrying out a spot check of the kitchen.

For each of the photographs: - What is wrong with the picture? How would you explain to your staff why

this is poor practice? What measures would you put in place to

ensure this does not happen again?

In order to grow and multiply germs need:

Warmth FoodMoisture Time

Miss Wreathall Teaches Food

Can you come up with your own acronym?

Bacillus Cereus Found in soil,

vegetation, cereals and spices

Staphylococcus Aureus

Found in human nose and throat

(also skin)

Clostridium Perfingens

Found in animals and birds

SalmonellaFound in animals, raw poultry and

birds

Clostridium Botulinum

Found in the soil and associated with

vegetables and meats

Types of food poisoning, you don’t need to know each individually

EQUIPMENT

Equipment must carry the CE

mark which indicates that the

required safety standards have

been met.

What is this piece of equipment

called and what does it do?