Prevention of food poisoning in a commercial kitchen is extremely important as you risk your business reputation and worst of all you may cause death. There are many ways food poisoning is minimised through: Food Laws, Correct personal hygiene and correct environmental hygiene.
Food Laws are extremely important way to minimise food poisoning, as they are laws put into place to ensure food is fit for human consumption and that the business serving food apply hygiene and correct safety procedures. The food laws set in place for NSW are Food Act 2003, NSW food authorities and Food Regulations 2010. The National food laws are Food Safety Standard Code and Food Standards Australia and New Zealand. Not Complying with the laws can result in death/injury of customers, fines, closure of business and name on the shame file. The laws are easily found on the internet, or at local councils. Complying with food is an important way to prevent food poising …show more content…
An employer of a food business should always talk to their employees about correct personal hygiene and what do if they notice another employee not using correct personal hygiene. There is many ways to obtain good personal hygiene and they include: Clean uniform, Hair contained, no jewellery, no nail polish/fake nails and washed hands and showered before arrival. Also washing hands correctly is an important prevention tool, you should always, rinse with hot water, use anti-bacterial soap, scrub finger nails, around and under fingers, rinse with hot water and dry with paper tool or blow dry. Use of correct personal hygiene is an important way to prevent food