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Meat Food Safety Inspection Checklist

by Tara Dwyer, from the Community

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This meat food safety inspection checklist helps retailers and food service teams verify safe handling practices from receiving to display. Cover personal hygiene, sanitation, allergen control, product identification and date coding, temperature monitoring, thawing, storage, and cross-contamination prevention. Inspect equipment and facilities, verify logs for grinding and temperatures, and confirm proper chemical use and labeling. Use it to document nonconformities, assign corrective actions, and maintain compliance with food safety requirements across meat departments and back-of-house areas.

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