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Food Safety for Business Operators

This document provides guidelines for proper food handling to prevent foodborne illness. It explains that following simple procedures can avoid most cases of food poisoning. The document then outlines best practices for preparing, cooking, serving, and cleaning up food safely, including avoiding cross-contamination and maintaining hygienic practices. It stresses the importance of food safety training and proper handling during all stages from delivery to serving to comply with legal requirements and protect customers, businesses, and jobs.

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Food Safety for Business Operators

This document provides guidelines for proper food handling to prevent foodborne illness. It explains that following simple procedures can avoid most cases of food poisoning. The document then outlines best practices for preparing, cooking, serving, and cleaning up food safely, including avoiding cross-contamination and maintaining hygienic practices. It stresses the importance of food safety training and proper handling during all stages from delivery to serving to comply with legal requirements and protect customers, businesses, and jobs.

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PROPER FOOD HANDLING

1. PROPER FOOD HANDLING

  

All foods, if handled properly, can be safe. Most instances of food poisoning do not have to
happen at all, and can be avoided by following simple guidelines.

Handling food properly and safely is essential to preventing food borne illness. This page
sets out to offer you the highest quality information on how to handle food safely, making it
safe to eat, and stopping it from spoiling. What you read here is applicable to a wide range
of work and home environments.  You will learn how to prepare, cook, serve and clean-up
food in a proper manner. What you see on this page is knowledge that you would otherwise
have to obtain through on-the-job training, self-study or relevant work experience. You will
learn about:

 Preparing food in a safe manner.


 Serving food in a safe manner
 Stopping the spread of bacteria through cross contamination
 Routines to follow and habits to avoid.
 Presenting food in a hygienic and appetizing way
The importance of following proper safe food handling
procedures
From the time the food is delivered to the minute it is served to the customer, food safety
should be at the top of the list. Food business operators in particular should bear in mind
that they are required by law, to ensure that any of their staff who handle food receive
appropriate training in hygiene matters that are in line with their work activity.

There is little margin for error in any stage of food handling, whether it is preparation,
processing, packaging, storage, transportation or offering it for sale. Also, note that if you
prepare high risk foods the standards required of you will be much stricter than if you only
prepare low risk foods.

 Protects people from getting sick.


 Protects your businesses reputation with customers.
 Protects your job.

The handling of food can take place during;

 Cooking
 Cooling
 Hot holding
 Preparation
 Purchase
 Receipt
 Re-heating
 Serving
 Storage

   

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