Safety Fundamentals in the Food Industry

This document discusses the importance of safety fundamentals in the food industry, including cleaning, cooking, cross contamination, and chilling. It also explores the impact of allergies and intolerances in the industry and the measures taken to manage them. The document provides insights into the rating, inspection, and reporting procedures followed by hospitality organizations. Additionally, it highlights the significance of allergy management in the hospitality industry and its role in ensuring customer safety and satisfaction.

Safety fundamentals

Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Allergies and Intolerances and the importance within the industry.......................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The food safety fundamentals comprise of maintaining cleaning, cook thoroughly,
separation of raw and cooked food, the food is safe at requirement temperature and usage of safe
raw material and water (Doyle, Diez-Gonzalez and Hill, 2020). It executes safer and quality
practices as like hygiene maintenance, accurate sensitisation and effective manufacturing habits.
MAIN BODY
Allergies and Intolerances and the importance within the industry
The food fundamentals process by maintaining cleaning and safer surround from the
illness that is food borne and for this 4Cs is process that is as explained below as:
Cleaning: It refers to the cleaning of kitchen surface as after and before preparation of food
and in this hospitality service provider must assure to “clean as much as you can”. In addition
after cutting of raw material, poultry, meets and other foods the hands must get washed. The
utensils and surface thoroughly get washed before making any contact.
Cooking: It must be followed by labelling instructions and recipe while setting required
temperature the food pipes must check so that cooking is processed my maintaining accurate
balanced and hygiene. The food must be kept under minimum internal temperature such as Beef,
Veal etc is in less than 145°F, Stuffing in 165°F.
Cross contamination: It is a major cause of food poisoning that is cause of harmful bacteria
that is spread from one utensil to other (Elshaer, 2019). In this raw and cooked food separate
particularly fresh food as salad, bread from raw food and meat. The cutting boards, knife,
utensils, plate and other equipments of cooking kept separate such as of raw material or of beef.
Chilling: It is an aspect that is used to maintain certain control within food directly and let
required sufficient cooling is provided as per requirement. The food must keep or placed in
refrigerator that is in temperature below 40°F as before two hours of cooking.
Health and safety is always being an essential aspect through which adequate work is placed
and processed with maintenance of higher priority of work. It is an effective way that induces
effective and efficient range of benefit over regular basis. The hospitality organisation have
followed different rating, inspection and reporting procedure to advance mobility and
sustainability with appropriateness. In terms of rating and inspection process it is provided on the
basis of service offered by hospitality such as:
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One-star: It means that business has offered only basic service and only having enough
places to sleep.
Two-star: It is basically affordable and offer comfortable service to its guest.
Three-star: These hospitality service providers assure to make unique amenities and quality
service to its customers.
Four-star: It is more often provide unique amenities with extraordinary comfort and
flexibility
Five-star: This business has provided flawless service to its guest as premium dining
options though which personalised services toward customers.
In respect of reporting procedure in hospitality organisation that is processed under A
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) within this suitable instruction are offered within document
in routine basis or in repetitive manner which assist to maintain higher quality and consistency
among offered services in standardised manner. It also comprise recording of financial data,
balance sheet under which overall revenue is reported that assist to measure adequate profit and
loss with adequateness.
Allergy management in hospitality industry is important for the betterment of health
condition of the guests and customers. Food allergies in food industry have a huge impact on the
level of growth and development that business done in the hospitality (Stylos and Zwiegelaar,
2019). It is important for the hospitality industry to perform all the precautions that prevent the
food allergies in the guests and customers this helps to increase the level of customer base and
development of better future of the hospitality industry. It helps to assist hospitality businesses to
provide consumers heath protection so that they can fulfil their needs and wants form the food
industry. Hygiene and safety of the customer play major role in the development of healthy
customer base that works on growth and fulfilment of needs and wants. It could assist the
businesses in hospitality industry to attract more customers and provide them safety and health
environment so that they can use the hospitality services and increase the level of growth in the
market place. Hotels should make food management plan that helps to gain better growth and
fulfilment of needs and wants of the future growth. This plan helps the hospitality businesses to
provide safety and protection to the customers so that they can fulfil the needs and wants in most
appropriate manner. In hospitality industry food management team should work together so that
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they can provide effective outcomes form the food management plan and growth to the healthy
business environment.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded that food management is an essential aspect that is controlled and
measured by hospitality organisation and through this tendency to maintain hygiene and safety
priorities is processed with perfection. In addition, allergies and intolerance is specified within
food industries are which selection of food is consumed by maintaining better precautions.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Doyle, M.P., Diez-Gonzalez, F. and Hill, C. eds., 2020. Food microbiology: fundamentals and
frontiers. John Wiley & Sons.
Elshaer, A.M., 2019. Labor in the tourism and hospitality industry: skills, ethics, issues, and
rights. CRC Press.
Stylos, N. and Zwiegelaar, J., 2019. Big data as a game changer: How does it shape business
intelligence within a tourism and hospitality industry context?. In Big data and
innovation in tourism, travel, and hospitality (pp. 163-181). Springer, Singapore.
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