Areas to focus on
The following areas should be your main focus
- food hygiene training / knowledge
- personal hygiene
- infection control
- pest control
- cleaning and sanitising (what types of chemicals and cleaning cloths are used? How they are cleaned / sanitised?)
- suppliers
- stock rotation
- temperature control
- traceability (using batch codes and keeping records)
- tamper evident seals and packaging
- equipment (suitability, condition checks, cleaning, storage)
- general control of chemical (such as cleaning chemicals), physical (particularly risk of loose metal parts from mixers and control of glass in the kitchen) and microbiological hazards at all stages of processing
- ingredient details (including allergy information and edible glitter procedures)
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