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Critical Audit Checklist for Food Safety

by agustin Guzman, from the Community

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Use this critical audit checklist to assess food safety and sanitation across fast food or quick service operations. It guides teams to record daily temperatures for hot held foods at 165 F or greater, verify reach-in, walk-in, and cabinet temperatures, check grill, dresser, fountain, and ice cream stations, and ensure proper procedures such as handwashing every 20 minutes, preventing cross contamination, and using only approved products. Include sanitizer test strips, calibrated digital thermometers, safe chemical storage, cleaning of food contact surfaces every 2 hours, pest prevention, ServSafe certifications, required training, and maintenance of historical temperature logs, with fields for date, time, and sign-off.

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