Tag: Level 2 Award In Food Safety in Catering

  • Food Hygiene Definitions Continued

      Food poisoning An acute illness, of sudden onset caused by the recent consumption of contaminated or poisonous food (Usually with symptoms of diarrhoea and/or vomiting) A case of food poisoning “A person with symptoms, usually diarrhoea and/or vomiting, who has become ill as a result of eating contaminated food and who has provided a…

  • High Risk and Raw Food

    High Risk and Raw Food High-risk foods (aw 0.95 – 0.99) • Are usually identified as food vehicles in food poisoning outbreaks • Ready-to-eat foods which support the rapid multiplication of food poisoning bacteria • Intended for consumption without treatment, such as cooking, which would remove or destroy these bacteria • Usually protein (NB cooked…

  • Level 2 Food Safety Course | Food Hygiene Training from £9 | Same Day Certificate

    Level 2 Food Safety Course | Food Hygiene Training from £9 | Same Day Certificate

    Level 2 Food Safety Course | Food Hygiene Training from £9 | Same Day Certificate Learn at your pace. CIEH, HABC and RSPH syllabus. Accepted by EHPs Click Below: https://food-safety-training.net/level2

  • Food Safety Part 2

    Food Safety Part 2

    Bacteria are responsible for the highest number of outbreaks.  80% of all food poisoning cases are caused by bacteria. Chemicals such as cleaning products, excess additives and preservatives, fuel fumes, strong after shaves/perfumes, agricultural chemicals, pesticides.  In 1997 aluminium sulphate was inadvertently dumped into a reservoir in Camelford, Cornwall, UK.  Twelve years later many relations…

  • Food Safety Part 1

    Food Safety Part 1

    Eating food kills!  That doesn’t mean by way of overeating and obesity, causing heart attacks, it means by food poisoning.  Food poisoning kills several hundred people in the UK every year and several thousand in the USA.  How can this happen in the 21st century?  Food poisoning and Foodborne disease are more prevalent now than…