According to the law all food business owners are legally required to make sure the food sold or prepared on their premises on behalf of their business is safe for customers to eat. They must also ensure that their business…
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Need For Food Handling Training
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Food Poisoning on the Menu at the World’s Top Restaurant
Just because a restaurant is expensive or highly rated doesn’t mean it’s immune to food safety and hygiene breaches as incident with popular Danish restaurant, Noma recently proved. The best restaurant in the world for 3 successive years was the source of…
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Beware Drug Resistant Shigella
Workers in the food service industry need to undergo Food Handling and Safety training in order to learn the techniques to preparing and serving food in a manner that is hygienic and safe for customers. We often hear of restaurants…
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Danger of Excessive Fast Food Consumption
An article written by Mike Stewart on the website www.foodsafety.com.au poses an interesting question to Australians about whether fast food like other vices such as alcohol and cigarettes should be regulated. According to the Cancer Council of Australia the consumption…
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Importance of Proper Handwashing for Food Prep Workers
Our hands are an important tool and are what differentiate us from the animals. Our hands have the ability to create and destroy, nowhere is this fact as apparent as it is in the food service industry. Clean hands are…
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Kelloggs Glass Scare – Recall Special K
Imagine opening a box of your favourite cereal in the morning only to discover a shard of glass or worse to take a bite and cut your tongue on a broken piece of glass? Well Kellogg Co. K.N had to…
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Food Safety Update: How Dangerous can Food Poisoning be to Expectant Mothers?
Pregnant women can be particularly at risk of becoming sick from food poisoning and most often it can be difficult to pinpoint the source of the poisoning. It is important for pregnant women to be aware of high risk foods…
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Council Receives 148 Food Safety Complaints in a Year
A shocking revelation that 148 food safety complaints have been reported to the Sutherland Shire County regarding cafes, restaurants and other businesses resulted in only 6 fines. Another 50 businesses had to undergo on-going monitoring and intervention while 12 improvement…
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Role of Cleanliness in Preventing Foodborne Illness
In the food preparation industry, most are aware of the need for cleanliness when working with food products however why exactly is food cleanliness so important? The main reason why food must prepared with cleanliness and proper food handling in…
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