Hospitality

This blog explains who’s legally responsible for food safety in a restaurant, from the food business operator down to individual staff, and what that responsibility entails. Ask many restaurant owners who’s responsible for food safety, and they’ll probably say the chef, or whoever’s in the kitchen that day. It feels true, because the kitchen is where food gets handled. But it’s legally incomplete, and it’s the kind of assumption that lets everyone else in the business, from

This month, Senior Technical Compliance Consultant, Rachel Bentley, explores essential steps to prevent food maliciousness in your bakery, maintaining your reputation and the trust of your loyal customers. Running a bakery involves more than just creating delicious treats; it also requires a commitment to food safety and preventing food maliciousness. Ensuring that your bakery is a trusted source of delectable goods means not only satisfying your customers' cravings but also

Calibration of equipment plays an important role in food safety, legality and quality. Proactive and routine calibration of key measuring devices and equipment ensures that food is processed accurately and consistently in addition to controlling physical, chemical or microbiological hazards in food production and manufacturing. When on site with their bakery clients, the team at Beacon Compliance often see the following types of equipment that require calibration; ovens , sca

For this article Beacon Compliance have teamed up with industry experts www.Klipspringer.com to bring to you three top tips to producing food that is “Free From” with confidence. “Free From”, it’s a sign of the times, it’s the “in thing”, it’s a “trend”, but in fact for some, it’s quite simply a dietary requirement to function normally day to day. One of the biggest problems for food producers and manufacturers is that allergens can creep their way into any products due to cr

Lets hope that you never receive that phone call…you know…the one that means whatever you were about to do, forget it – we’ve got a product recall on our hands! In this article, Beacon Compliance food safety experts are taking the position that as the reader, you know all about product recall, that it should be tested frequently, and that yes, it is different to a traceability. Have you thought or event considered these factors when it comes to product recall? Let’s hope that

Picture it, your local Environmental Health Officer walks in, white coat, clipboard, tools at the ready, they run their fingers across the surfaces of the premises , they review the temperature of the food in the chiller , they flick through the pages of your food safety paperwork , they complete their paperwork and congratulate you with being awarded your 5 hygiene rating…celebrations can begin…its feels great doesn’t it!…well…this is not always the outcome…read on to find o

Wouldn’t we all love more storage! Picture this…a beautiful array of storage containers, colour coded, size and alphabetically ordered, separate temperature-controlled storage solutions for raw materials, work in progress and finished products, raw foods, ready to eat foods etc.…do your food storage areas look like this? If not, perhaps this is how you should be thinking! The way we store food at the various steps of baking can significantly affect the safety and quality of

You wake up in the morning, pop the kettle on and turn up the radio to hear ‘…breaking news this morning, a school child dies after suffering an allergic reaction by simply enjoying a piece of birthday cake at a child’s party on the weekend…’ Thoughts run through your mind…Was it a cake you made? Who was that lady that picked up that cake on Friday? I’m sure I thoroughly cleaned the mixing bowl before making that cake? Imagine the panic and dread that would overwhelm you…

I took my two daughters today to an arts and crafts workshop in a local village near me, Pontarddulais. The workshop is run by a friend of mine, Julie Wignall-Hovestadt. Creative Renaissance Wales (www.creativerenaissance.co.uk), became active in January 2019 months ago and makes very good use of her laser cutting machine for all material variants distributing gifts, business marketing materials, favours, frames, anything you can think of...she should be able to make it!!

Perception is that the 'Health Inspector', 'Environmental Health Officer', 'Food Law Enforcement Officer', 'Food Safety Professional' wants to visit your food business and make your life a misery, make you wish that we had never walked in, make you want the hole in the ground to swallow you up, we want your business to fail and for you to be shamed across social media and the press - for you to be shut down....that's true isn't it! We love a grimey grubby unsafe kitchen!....