Food safety
Businesses that rely on their reputation and quality of food must ensure compliance with the following:
- Food Safety Act
- Food Safety Regulation
- Food Safety Standards
- Local Council Requirements
CHD Partners has developed a number of programs to assist small to large businesses comply with their various Food Safety Compliance requirements.
Failure to comply with Food Safety Standards may result in injury or death for customers and prosecution or litigation for the organisation or owner of the business. The
Food Authority regularly releases prosecutions on its website. Regardless of the size of your commercial business the compliance requirements are the same. These requirements include:
- Notification
- Skills and knowledge
- Maintaining potentially hazardous food at correct temperatures
- Cooking or another processing step to make food safe
- Protecting food from contamination - -
- Food disposal
- Food recall
- Health and hygiene requirements
- Cleaning, sanitising and maintenance
- Thermometers
- Animals and pests
A few examples of non-compliance can include:
- Failure to have all food handling staff trained and instructed in proper food handling procedures
- Lack of hazard control and prevention
- Poor Food handling and food area hygiene
To assist businesses in complying with their requriements, CHD Partners offers the following programs: