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Food Safety Minor Checklist

by Mohammad Chaudhry, from the Community

This Food Safety Minor checklist supports daily food handling in retail and hospitality settings. It covers delivery verification with temperature slips, chilled and frozen storage limits and monitoring, and stock rotation with SATO expiry checks. It guides cooking temperature records for each bake and hot holding probes multiple times per day. The template reinforces pest prevention practices and comprehensive cleaning for coffee equipment, ovens, hot and chilled displays, panini grills, and Merrychef units. It also notes equipment maintenance, personal hygiene requirements, return to work forms after illness, and first aid and eye wash kit availability.

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