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Weekly Food Control Diary

by Joel Le Breton, from the Community

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This weekly food control diary helps food service teams document essential hygiene and safety activities every Monday. Track cleaning tasks such as sanitising light switches, power points, fridge runners and interiors, and skirting boards. Log maintenance like cleaning ice machine, freezer, fridge and postmix filters and checking extraction fans and pizza boards. Record poultry temperature checks and cooking procedures to at least 75 degrees C with probe readings, start and finish times, corrective actions, and a final signature.

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