Food Hygiene
How many restaurants and cafes are there in the UK?
As of 4 December 2020, there are 109,450 restaurants and cafes in the UK that have an active food hygiene rating. This includes all types of restaurant, for example staff canteens. In the last 12 months, there were 8,215 restaurants and cafes opened throughout the country. This averages 685 per month or 23 per day. The impact…
Read MoreHow Do You Manage Your Food Safety?
You’ve decided to diversify as you’ve found something you enjoy doing and people enjoy eating. You have organised your capital, bought your produce and equipment and are all set to go. But are you up to speed on Food Safety? Because it’s really not worth taking a risk where your business and the health of…
Read MoreDo you work in an Early Years setting and prepare or serve food?
Few early years and childcare environments employ professional kitchen staff. Mostly this is because it is simply not financially viable to do so. However, the techniques employed to combat cross contamination in high volume kitchens can still be utilised in domestic or smaller kitchens. Introducing some simple changes could reduce risk. Here are five easy…
Read MoreFeeling Ill, then should you be at work?
When you are working in a kitchen, food production, or food retail area, you sometimes literally have the health of the people who eat your food in your hands. The hands that you use to touch the food you make could pass on some pretty nasty bugs, and, while this can produce some unpleasant symptoms…
Read MoreBad Hygiene In The Kitchen – Can It Affect My Business?
Running a business can be expensive; equipment to buy, ingredients for products, staff to employ, the list is endless. But there shouldn’t be a trade off when it comes to food hygiene training. There is an old story that gets passed around the internet on a regular basis, where the financial director of a business…
Read MoreDo I really need food hygiene training to sell homemade food?
Since lockdown has eased, here at the Food Hygiene Company we’ve received loads of enquiries concerning the need for food hygiene training if you cooking at home and selling your food via social media. So in best Blue Peter fashion, here’s a blog we prepared earlier, last year in fact. It makes for interesting reading:…
Read MoreCOVID-19 and food safety: guidance for food businesses
The World Health Organization has issued new guidance for food businesses operating during the pandemic. The principal points raised are: Can COVID-19 be contracted via food? It is highly unlikely that people can contract COVID-19 from food or food packaging. COVID-19 is a respiratory illness and the primary transmission route is through person-to-person contact and…
Read MoreIn lockdown should we just ignore the ‘best before’ and ‘use by’ dates and use a bit of common sense?
Mother knows best ‘Mother knows best’ is a familiar expression to those of us of a certain age. And no doubt ‘Mother’ would completely agree with the opening statement. When times are hard and every trip to the shops increases your risk of catching COVID-19 then why not use a little common sense, if the…
Read MoreCan I train furloughed staff?
The simple answer is yes, you can. Government guidance has always allowed you to train furloughed staff. However, the initial guidance suggested you had to pay staff the national minimum wage for any hours they spent training, but this requirement has been lifted now. One condition that remains though, is that the training can’t be…
Read MoreFood Hygiene Training in 2020
There are many reasons why food hygiene training should be important to a food business, but as we go into the New Year, some of these reasons are only going to become more relevant. With the introduction of new technologies and ease of online access to reviews, ratings, and news articles about your business, if…
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