Food safety
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Chris Moore has joined Safeguard Training and Consultancy as a food safety and health and safety consultant and trainer.
Posted: 13 August 2010 | 12:50
Having investigated some severe cases of food poisoning, Sylvia Anderson is familiar with all the potential pitfalls in kitchen hygiene. Here she provides tips on how to prepare yourself and your staff for environmental health food safety inspections
Posted: 23 July 2010 | 10:43
Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has attacked the Scores on the Doors hygiene rating scheme for being overly bureaucratic after his Oxfordshire pub...
Posted: 21 July 2010 | 10:55
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is to lose its responsibility for nutrition policy and country of origin labelling but keep its food safety remit, as the Government pares down the quango. The FSA will hand over nutrition policy to the Department of Health.
Posted: 20 July 2010 | 12:39
As Caterer and Hotelkeeper went to press this week, the latest news items on the Food Standards Agency's website bore the headlines, "Bakers' salt in bread calculator is launched" and "FSA commissions campylobacter research".
Posted: 16 July 2010 | 17:00
The controversy over genetically-modified food is heating up as EU proposals to relax the rules on approving new varieties for cultivation in Europe has already sparked a clash between English and Scottish ministers over their future in Britain.
Posted: 07 June 2010 | 11:14
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Whitbread to raise £100m through private placement; machismo eating trend that consumes live animals plans UK launch; dine in the sky experience at Edinburgh Festival and more…
Posted: 01 June 2010 | 10:29
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: sea change sees mellowing of macho kitchen culture; Splendid Hotel Group seeks £200m for seven London hotels; Jamie Oliver is Britain’s 22nd most generous donor to charity and more…
Posted: 19 April 2010 | 10:52
Story of the week: Heston Blumenthal has received £200,000 compensation following a food-poisoning outbreak at his three-Michelin-starred Fat Duck restaurant. A young sous chef at the Tate Modern has died after suffering from tonsillitis. Nathan Laity, 23, of Penryn, Cornwall continued to work long hours...
Posted: 26 March 2010 | 17:57
Heston Blumenthal has received £200,000 compensation following a food-poisoning outbreak at his three-Michelin-starred Fat Duck restaurant. Blumenthal closed the iconic restaurant in Bray, Berkshire, for two weeks in February and March last year after more than 500 diners were struck down...
Posted: 22 March 2010 | 10:43
A well-established restaurant in Oxford has been shut down by health inspectors after they found widespread cross-contamination between open raw meats and ready-to-eat food. Inspectors issued an emergency prohibition notice for the Al-Shami Lebanese restaurant in Jericho, Oxford...
Posted: 22 March 2010 | 10:32
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: alcohol duty forecast to rise by 5%-plus in the Budget; UK’s first dedicated cheese restaurant opens in Chelsea; Gourmet Burger King boss buys a stake in Tortilla and more…
Posted: 22 March 2010 | 10:14
Appearances on television don't always mean mean full bookings and enhanced reputations. Lisa Ackerley, a food safety advisor for Watchdog and Rogue Restaurants, dishes the dirt on some shameful premises and provides her tips to stay out of court.
Posted: 19 March 2010 | 17:30
Story of the week: England's visitor economy can grow from £97b in 2010 to £147b and create 225,000 more jobs over the next decade, according to VisitEngland.
John Footman is to become the new chef at the Goose in Britwell Salome, which was forced to close ...
Posted: 19 March 2010 | 16:36
The new head of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has warned that hospitality operators refusing to conform with its voluntary Scores on the Doors scheme would “go out of business pretty damn quick”. Lord Rooker, chairman of the FSA, said that once a national standard had been reached ...
Posted: 19 March 2010 | 15:31
A kitchen porter at Buckinghamshire’s prestigious Stowe School has been arrested over claims some soup was poisoned. The BBC reported that Stowe had contacted the police last week and that a 58-year-old man from Brackley in Northamptonshire had been arrested.
Posted: 17 March 2010 | 12:22
Vanessa Brett has been appointed as a consultant by food safety and health and safety consultancy the European Safety Bureau. Based in Chelmsford, Brett will liaise with clients throughout London and the South East. She qualified as an environmental health officer in 1991...
Posted: 08 March 2010 | 13:17
Caterer has teamed up again with P&G Professional to nvestigate the cleanliness of the hospitality industry, but the results of our research suggest a lack of progress in he area since we conducted our last survey three years ago. Daniel Thomas reports.
When you walk into a hotel room what is the first...
Posted: 26 February 2010 | 14:37
A third of hotel and restaurant employees have admitted that the establishment where they work is not always cleaned to the highest standard, a survey by Caterer and Hotelkeeper has found. Of the 520 respondents, 33% said that their cleaning wasn’t up to standard, despite the fact that ...
Posted: 25 February 2010 | 12:07
If the multitude of quangos survives the next Government, the industry must have a greater influence on how they operate, says
British Hospitality Association chief executive Bob Cotton
Posted: 17 February 2010 | 14:32
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