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Internal Food Safety Audit Checklist

by Kevin Fitzgerald, from the Community

Use this internal food safety audit checklist to assess sandwich and bowls preparation areas in a cook on site facility. Review staff hygiene and uniforms, glove use, handwashing, and training validity. Inspect work benches, floors, equipment, food contact surfaces, labeling, and storage. Verify cold room and fridge conditions, stock rotation, and use by dates. Check goods receiving controls and temperature checks during preparation, portioning, and chilling. Confirm thermometer accuracy and calibration, and ensure sampling and retention for traceability. Designed for three month audits aiming for greater than ninety percent pass.

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Internal Food Safety Audit - Dessert Section
This internal food safety audit checklist is designed for a cook on site facility focusing on the Fresh Fields main kitchen dessert section. It helps verify compliance with hygiene and sanitation standards, staff attire and handwashing, and recent training. Inspect work areas for cleanliness, storage off the floor, labeling and use by dates, equipment sanitation, ventilation, and lighting. Review cold room and fridge conditions and temperatures, stock rotation, and thawing practices. Check goods received, blast chiller cleanliness and forms, and food packaging and weighing steps, including temperature controls to prevent cross contamination. Confirm thermometer accuracy and calibration records. Verify food sampling and retention procedures, correct labeling, portions, and 14 day frozen storage.
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Internal Food Safety Audit for Fresh Fields Kitchen
This internal kitchen audit checklist is designed for the Fresh Fields vegetable section to support food safety, compliance, and consistent quality. It covers staff hygiene and uniforms, handwashing and PPE, mandatory staff training, work area cleanliness, equipment and utensil sanitation, correct food storage and labeling, and cold room/fridge conditions including temperatures, rotation, and shelf organization. It includes goods receivable checks, blast chiller cleanliness and logging, food packaging and weighing with temperature controls, portioning practices, and minimizing time out of refrigeration for high‑risk foods. The audit also verifies thermometer accuracy and calibration, and food sampling and retention procedures. A score above 90 percent is required to pass, with corrective actions assigned as needed.
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Hall and Prior Food Safety Audit for Fresh Fields Mains
Use this three monthly internal food safety audit checklist to assess the Fresh Fields mains kitchen. Review staff hygiene and uniforms, glove use, handwashing and training currency. Inspect work areas for cleanliness, correct storage, labeling and equipment sanitation. Verify cold room and fridge temperatures are below five degrees and that stock is rotated and within date. Check goods received records, blast chiller cleanliness and forms, and packaging and weighing steps to avoid cross contamination. Confirm thermometer accuracy to plus or minus one degree and proper probe wipe use. Ensure food sampling and retention for each meal is correctly labeled, stored frozen for fourteen days and segregated. A total score above ninety percent is required to pass.
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Capital Food Safety Audit
Use this comprehensive food safety audit checklist to assess cloud and ghost kitchen operations. Evaluate delivery receiving practices, storage conditions and temperatures, labeling and shelf-life control, food preparation and defrosting, cooking, cooling, hot and cold holding, and ice handling. Check foreign body controls, equipment and utensil integrity, and contamination prevention. Verify staff training, personal hygiene, handwashing, glove use, and visitor protocols. Review chemical storage, dishwashing and sanitizing procedures, cleaning schedules and logs, waste management, and pest control. Confirm thermometer calibration and temperature logs. Ensure management oversight, required licenses, and facility upkeep.
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