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The GFH
Food Safety Pack
Your kitchen’s written food safety system: practical methods, questions, checks and records for small catering kitchens, ready to print, fill in and keep by the pass.
Written for kitchens in England and Wales · PDF, 3 MB

What’s inside
Everything your kitchen’s food safety system needs
Each method sets out what the law asks, what official guidance advises and our own advice, then asks the questions your kitchen needs to answer, with a worked example from a made-up bistro beside the space for yours.
Cross-contamination
Nine methods: personal hygiene, reporting illness, raw and ready-to-eat food, cloths, allergy and coeliac orders, allergen labels, pests and equipment.
Cleaning
Four methods: handwashing, cleaning then disinfecting, clearing between jobs, and planning and checking cleaning.
Chilling
Four methods: chilled storage and display, cooling hot food, defrosting and freezing.
Cooking
Ten methods: checking food before serving, eggs, rice, fish and shellfish, reheating, acrylamide, hot holding and ready-to-eat food.
Management
Ten methods: opening and closing checks, probe checks, training and cover, allergen information, complaints, suppliers, stock, recalls and reviewing the pack.
Diary and records
21 blank sheets: a weekly diary, a four-week review, fridge, cooking and cooling records, probe checks, training, suppliers, cleaning and incidents.
Take a look inside
A peek at the pages
Tap any page to view it larger.
Paper or app
Fill it in on paper, or keep it in the app
Every section has a QR code that opens the same section in the GFH app, where the daily diary, temperatures and cleaning records are kept for you.
- Answer each method for your own kitchen and sign it off
- Keep daily checks in the weekly diary, or in the app
- Train the team with our food hygiene courses

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Get your free copy
Print the pages you need, work through one section at a time, and keep the completed pack where your team and an inspecting officer can find it.
Produced by Good Food Hygiene from the law and official guidance it lists. It is not produced, approved or endorsed by the Food Standards Agency. Written for kitchens in England and Wales; Scotland has different temperature rules.




