HND Hospitality Food Safety Management: Restaurant Gordon Ramsay Case

This report provides an overview of food safety management, focusing on Restaurant Gordon Ramsay as a case study. It covers various aspects of food contamination, including physical and chemical hazards, and outlines control measures to prevent contamination. The report differentiates between food poisoning and foodborne infections, listing common infections like Hepatitis, Listeriosis, and Cyclosporiasis, and comparing their characteristics. It also discusses how foodborne illnesses can be controlled, highlighting specific illnesses like Norovirus and Salmonella, including their symptoms and prevention methods. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of maintaining safety and cleanliness in the food industry to prevent illness, sickness, and potential fatalities, referencing relevant research on HACCP and ISO 22000 standards. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering study tools and solved assignments for students.

Food Safety
Management

Cover Content
Introduction
Food Contamination
Meaning of physical and chemical contamination
List to controls contamination
Remark related to control
Difference
List of food borne infections
Characteristics of food poisoning and food borne infections
Comparison of similar characteristics
How Food-borne Illnesses Can Be Controlled
Norovirus
Conclusion
References

Introduction
Food and beverage industry is one of the most fastest growing sector and
expectations of customer get increased now a day.
In this sector food safety is one of the major issue because unsafe food leads
to unhealthy life and death.
According to survey 2.5 millions peoples including children face death due
to unhealthy food and beverages.

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Organization taken for this assignment is Restaurant Gordon Ramsay which is
establish in year 1998 by Gordon. It is one of the famous restaurant of London,
United Kingdom who serve French dishes by using ingredients very carefully.
Their food menu is bifurcated into several parts like A la carte menu,
vegetarian menu, dessert menu and many other. Along with this they also
design their menu according to occasion such as Valentine day menu and wine
list.

Food Contamination
It refers to harmful chemicals and microorganisms which is present in food
due to which consumers face illness and unhealthy condition.
In other word it is related to situation when food corrupted by another
harmful substances such as physical contamination, biological contamination
and chemical contamination.

Meaning of physical and chemical contamination
Physical Contamination is a situation when food is contaminated by foreign
object and it can be occur at any process of production which contain Brand
Aids, steel wool or small plastics.
 Chemical Contamination is a situation when food is contaminated by
some artificial or natural chemical.

List to controls contamination
Physical Contamination-
Avoid wearing jewelry and nail polish while preparing food.
Not carry any harmful material like broken glass, plastics etc.
Chemical Contamination-
Provide training and interaction to employees related to use of chemical.
Always wash food with cold water.

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Their are three type of food contamination
which are biological such as bacteria, fungal
etc. and second is chemical which is occur
due to excess use of chemical and last one is
physical which is occur in food such as
plastic, pen etc.

Remark related to control
To control physical contamination of food restaurant must make rules and
regulation such as no employees can wear any type of jewelry and they have
to wear globs and hair cap.
Whereas to control chemical contamination they provide training related to
use of chemical.

Difference
Food poisoning Food borne infections.
It is cause due to bacteria, virus or
parasites which is present in food. It is cause by food which is
contaminated with harmful
bacteria or other pathogen.
Symptoms will develop within 60
minutes. Symptoms will develop in several
weeks.

List of food borne infections
Hepatitis
Listeriosis
Cyclosporiasis

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There are various symptoms , some of them
are :
Diarrhoea
Vomiting
Fever
Nausea
Abdominal cramps