Food temperatures control

[Eats]

I work in the catering industry and the food Safety authority specify that all foods must have their temperatures taken. Safe temperatures are 5°C or colder, for cold foods, or 60°C or hotter.for hot food. Thats all well and good, but if you are in a busy environment you dont have time to take the temperature of every single item on the menu. so what we do is just fill in the from and guess, guess that it is the right temp, and stay within their guideliens. Does anyone else do this?

[society]

Do you work for a large, well established company? If so, then they should employ someone specifically for checking the foods temperature.

If it's a small place then assign one of the employees to be responsible for recording the temperatures every couple hours throughout the day.

[237SJ]

At work our food is stored with a food temperature label which shows a certain colour if the food is below 5 degs. Don`t you have those? If the colour strip one colour the food is served, if it`s not the food shouldn`t be served. Nobody has to check then.

[Eats]

Society it is a large catering company and they expect us to go al with the guidelines of the FSA, there is noway they would take on someone to do the temps.
2375J, I've never heard of them labels, And me being employed by a well established catering company you'd think they would have interduced them to us! they sound ideal!

[evil__sheep]

can you say the name to remind me not to eat where the employees are guessing whether the food meets food hygiene standards or not?

[DTCwordfan]

My thoughts too, sheep.......his outfit should be closed down and go bankrupt soonest. Perhaps he could propose that they move to Okehampton, guaranteed closure there given recent food co performance.

And then we can avoid salmonella or whatever they are packaging for us unsuspecting folk who pay out cash for their (dubious) products.

[bushbaby_de]

That's awful, no way should you be guessing and hoping. Report them!