Food Safety
Information about how to meet the food safety criteria in the
'Healthy Choices Strand: Food Bought at School'
For a greater understanding of the reasons for these criteria please read page 20 of the Healthy Heart Award for Schools: Tohu Manawa Ora - Kura Handbook.
Food safety training for food service staff
Please refer to your local council for food safety courses in your geographical area.
Safe food handling posters
| Please visit www.foodsafe.org.nz where you may download the Foodsafe Freddie and Foodsafe Feleti
posters. Alternatively you may order them by phoning 0800 693 721 or emailing mail to: info@nzfsa.govt.nz
For more detailed information on food safety please visit http://www.nzfsa.govt.nz/foodborne-illness/campylobacter/related-links.htm#P40_1558 where you may download posters on cross-contamination, separating food, hygiene and washing hands under the heading "For chefs and commercial cooks". |
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Food safety procedures
Food safety procedures provide guidelines for some of the highest risk activities in a food service so as to keep the food safe. Components include:
- ensuring refrigerated food is kept cold enough
- ensuring hot food is kept hot enough
- the handling of poultry and other potentially hazardous foods.
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As a foundation for the development of food safety procedures, please download the NZFSA Food Control Plan (food service and catering) found at www.nzfsa.govt.nz (type 'food control plan' into the search box). Procedures are covered on pages SS12-SS22. Black and white hard copies of this document may be ordered by calling free phone 0800 693 721 or emailing info@nzfsa.govt.nz |
You may also like to visit http://www.nzfsa.govt.nz/policy-law/projects/domestic-food-review/index.htm#P38_2602 and look under the Food Handler Guidance section where you can find a document entitled 'Food safety tips for selling food at occasional events.' While this document has been developed specifically for events such as galas, food fairs, festivals etc, it also contains pertinent information relating to the food preparation activities undertaken in a school food service. Included in the information are handy tips on personal hygiene, preparing, cooking, cooling, reheating and displaying food. Hard copies of these documents may be ordered by calling free phone 0800 693 721 or emailing info@nzfsa.govt.nz
Food safety monitoring
Good procedures are monitored for their success and changed to address problems. Food safety monitoring consists of the daily and weekly records of temperature checks and other food safety practices followed. These can be in your own format or you may like to use those in the NZFSA Food Diary for Food Service and Catering (also found at www.nzfsa.govt.nz or by ordering a hard copy with the Food Control Plan).
NB: If school canteens are registered with their local councils, full food safety resource packs may be obtained from them.
