Barbecue smoking is an everyday warm-weather activity and is increasing in popularity at home and in restaurants. In restaurants, it can be a year-round activity. Temperature monitoring is essential no matter what the occasion or how exactly you are preparing to smoke. A great resource is the USDA’s guide for safe temperatures for cooking meat. The complexity of cooking different meats is vast and following...
What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger is no longer an attitude most can afford.
FSMA, the Food Safety Modernization Act is here. Signed into law in 2011, final and proposed rules are in place. The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) website has a convenient chart describing the timing of proposed and final rules.
Restaurants are fast paced and hectic on a normal day, but add a power outage into the mix and it can cause a lot of problems. It can be a challenge to keep up with the practices of food safety while in the middle of a power outage due to the amount of equipment that relies on electricity. A good way to focus on keeping up with the food safety protocols is to focus on the one main goal: making sure the frozen and...
When dealing with power outages within food service or school cafeterias, it can be stressful figuring out how to prevent foodborne illness. Sometimes during a power outage, it’s hard to know whether food is safe or if it needs to be thrown away. There are different solutions depending on refrigerated assets, storage, and safety protocols.
The 7 principles of HACCP are a series of guidelines that follow the rules and regulations set forth by the U.S. FDA. These are typically associated with the implementation of HACCP programs. The main priority of these guides in food service organization is the safety and protocol to keep food, employees, and customers safe in retail and food service.
Commercial refrigerator maintenance begins with understanding your unit
