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Internal Food Safety Inspection Checklist

by Ahmed Yaghoub, from the Community

This internal food safety inspection checklist helps restaurants, cafeterias, and food service teams verify compliance with hygiene and HACCP standards. Sections cover site cleanliness, handwashing facilities, pest control, floors, walls and ceilings; equipment sanitation, waste disposal, and maintenance/calibration; colleague practices, personal hygiene, and behavior; food protection including shelf life, storage and temperature control, raw ingredients handling, halal/non‑halal separation, washing facilities, packaging, CCP monitoring, chemical use and storage, water and ice supply, thawing, transport, and contamination prevention. Includes documentation checks for EFST certificates, personal hygiene records, pest and cleaning logs, and CCP records, plus inspection details and sign‑off. Customize to your operation, assign corrective actions, and export reports.

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