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Food Safety (IOSH Tees Branch AGM, May 2017)
Jonathan Backhouse, MRes MA BA(Hons) DipNEBOSH EnvDipNEBOSH CertEd CMIOSH(CIEH Level 4 Certificate in Advanced Food Hygiene)
Jonathan BackhouseAssociates
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https://www.food.gov.uk/sites/default/files/multimedia/pdfs/fds2015.pdf
• Around a million people suffer foodborne illness
• Around 20,000 people receive hospital treatment due to foodborne illness
• There are around 500 deaths caused by foodborne illness
• Estimated cost £1.5 billion
It is estimated that each year in the UK:
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• Food safety: the safeguarding (protection or preservation) of food from anything that could harm human health
• Food hygiene: all the practical measures involved in keeping food safe to eat and wholesome through all stages of handling
• Food-borne illness: the general term for illness linked to food from either food poisoning or food-borne disease
Definitions
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2017, Hygiene for Management (19th Edition), pp 22 / www.foodborneillness.com/salmonella_food_poisoning/https://www.foodsafety.gov/poisoning/causes/bacteriaviruses/campylobacter/
• Food poisoning is caused by bacteria multiplying in or on food
• Symptoms include: abdominal pain, diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting
• Onset is usually hours (1 – 36 hours)
• Campylobacter – (58,800 cases in 2015 (E&W))– Raw and undercooked
poultry, unpasteurisedmilk,contaminated water
Food poisoning
• Food-borne disease is caused by bacteria & viruses multiplying in people
• As food poisoning plus:fever, organ damage and failure
• Onset is unusually days
• Salmonella– (8,451 cases in 2015 (E&W))– Raworundercooked eggs,raw milk,
contaminated water,andraworundercookedmeats
Food-borne disease
Food-borne illness
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2017, Hygiene for Management (19th Edition), p22
Notifications of Food Poisoning in England and Wales
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What are thetop causal factors relating to food poising?
1. Cross contamination2. Inadequate heating/cooking3. Storage too long/too warm4. Infected food handler
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2017, Hygiene for Management (19th Edition), p19Food Information Regulation, 2014
1. Celery2. Cereals 3. Crustaceans 4. Eggs5. Fish6. Lupin 7. Milk8. Molluscs9. Mustard10.Nuts11.Peanuts12.Sesame seeds13.Soybeans14.Sulphur dioxide and sulphites
A food allergy is a rapid and potentially serious response to a food by your immune system. Symptoms of an allergic reaction can range from mild symptoms – such as itching around the mouth and rashes; and can progress to more severe symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhoea, wheezing and, on rare occasions, anaphylaxis (shock).
http://www.food.gov.uk/sites/default/files/eu-fic-faq.pdf
Food (allergens) labelling
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<[email protected]>Subject: Morrisons recalls Trimmed Beans because the
product may contain small pieces of metalDate: 21 April 2017 at 11:40:45 BST
<[email protected]>Subject: Bleikers Smokehouse Ltd recalls Coldwater Prawns and Tiger Prawns because the products are
labelled with incorrect use by datesDate: 21 April 2017 at 11:40:52 BST
From: Food Standards Agency
Via email
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• The Middle Eastern 108-112 Parliament Road Middlesbrough
• Toby Carvery 535 Marton Road Middlesbrough
• KFC Dalby Way Middlesbrough• TS8 0TW
• Akbars Restaurant 192-194 Linthorpe Road Middlesbrough
• Chipchase Chippy 9 Chipchase Road Middlesbrough
• Pizza Pizza, 15 Parliament Road Middlesbrough
http://ratings.food.gov.uk
http://ratings.food.gov.uk/enhanced-search/26 April 2017
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• The Middle Eastern 108-112 Parliament Road Middlesbrough
• Toby Carvery 535 Marton Road Middlesbrough
• KFC Dalby Way Middlesbrough• TS8 0TW
• Akbars Restaurant 192-194 Linthorpe Road Middlesbrough
• Chipchase Chippy 9 Chipchase Road Middlesbrough
• Pizza Pizza, 15 Parliament Road Middlesbrough
What do you think they would score?
08 Sept’ 2015
21 Dec’ 2016
10 Nov’ 2016
14 June 2016
19 Aug’ 2016
15 Dec’ 2016
http://ratings.food.gov.uk/enhanced-search/26 April 2017
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Care homes
Schools
Academies
Nurseries
How many would score 1 or less?
http://ratings.food.gov.uk/enhanced-search/26 April 2017
Care homes 18
Schools 46 (four scored 0)
Academies 8 (one scored 0)
Nurseries 31 (three scored 0)
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Personal experience Photo: Jonathan Backhouse
1 – A local training provider who ran a health and safety course – outside of UK
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Personal experience / http://ratings.food.gov.uk/enhanced-search/
• Held at local hotel • Food did not look ‘appealing’• When rating looked up – scored 1• Training Provider not interested when informed
2 – A training course delivered by national health and safety company, locally
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Personal Experience / Under Freedom of Information Act
• The extractor fan in the wall above the extraction canopy was in a dirty/greasy condition
• The tiled wall covering in the kitchen behind the hot plate was damaged in places
• The painted wall covering in the storeroom was flaking in places • The painted shelving in the storeroom was in need of repainting and
cannot be adequately cleaned • No food hygiene training
What would the rating be?
3 – A local catering establishment used for students’ lunch (on a health and safety course)
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Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 (regulation 19(1))
Three factors to consider:• Capability• Harm• Turnover
From £200 – £3,000,000
Court actions
https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/HS-offences-definitive-guideline-FINAL-web.pdf
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Health and Safety Offences, Corporate Manslaughter and Food Safety and Hygiene OffencesDefinitive Guideline
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http://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2017-01-05/mouse-infestation-at-teesside-takeaway-leads-to-fine/
The owner of a takeaway in Middlesbrough has been fined after inspectors found serious hygiene breaches which posed a risk to public health.
When Environmental Health Officers visited Lorenzo Pizzeria on June 14, 2016, they discovered poor standards of cleanliness and evidence of a widespread mouse infestation.
Fined £548 and ordered to pay £648 in costs plus a £54 victim surcharge.
Mouse infestation at Teesside takeaway leads to fine
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https://www.hcrlaw.com/blog/peanut-allergy-case-legal-landmark-food-safety/
A restaurant owner has been imprisoned for the manslaughter of a customer with a peanut allergy in a case thought to be the first of its kind.
Paul Wilson, aged 38, who ordered a takeaway curry from the Indian Garden restaurant in Easingwold, North Yorkshire, owned by Mohammed Zaman, suffered a severe allergic reaction to the curry and died from anaphylactic shock.
He had specifically requested food without any nuts in it, but the restaurant used ground nut powder in its food, rather than almond powder, which caused the reaction. The instruction that his meal should contain no nuts was written on his order and on the lid of his takeaway.
Mohammed Zaman, aged 52, of Aylesham Court, Huntington, was sentenced at Teesside Crown Court to six years in prison. He was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence and six food safety offences.
Peanut allergy case is legal landmark for food safety
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http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Food-Safety/Food-firm-in-275-000-fine-for-listeria-food-safety-offences
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-38562818
https://kswfoodworld.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/uk-carlisles-pioneer-meat-supplier-fined-275k-for-bacteria-in-meat-listeria-monocytogenes/
Food supplier Pioneer Foods was fined £275,000 after pleading guilty to 11 food safety offences, including selling listeria-contaminated meat, in 2014-2015
Pioneer, which operates under the name of PFD Limited, was also ordered to pay costs of £28,907 and a victim surcharge of £120.
The company said its shops had five-star hygiene ratings.
Pioneer Foods fined £275k after listeria food offences
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https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/39652852
Mahmudur Rohman, 46, and Kamal Rahman, 54, both from Peterborough, were convicted at Leicester Crown Court.
Their conspiracy to commit fraud was uncovered by trading standards.
As well as the prison sentence, the men were disqualified from being company directors for four years.
Trading standards estimated Dutch Bangla Ltd made a profit of between £300,000 and £400,000 between January 2013 and October 2014.
Two men have each been jailed for five years after passing off turkey mince as halal lamb to butchers
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http://www.sofht.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/W-food-law-due-diligence-defence.pdf
For someone who neither prepared the food nor imported it into Great Britain, is taken to have established the defence if he proves that:a.the commission of the offence was due to an act or default of another person who was not under his control, or to reliance on information supplied by such a person b.he carried out all such checks of the food in question as were reasonable in all the circumstancesor that it was reasonable in all the circumstances for him to rely on checks carried out by the supplier [caterer]c.he did not know and had no reason to suspect at the time of the commission of the offence that his act or omission would amount to an offence.
The main food laws which apply in the UK are: • The Food Safety
Act 1990 • The General Food
Law Regulation (EC) 178/2002
• The General Food Regulations 2004
Due Diligence Defence
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https://www.food.gov.uk/business-industry/food-hygiene
Good food hygiene is all about controlling harmful bacteria, which can cause serious illness.
The four main things to remember for good food hygiene are:• Cross-contamination• Cleaning• Chilling• Cooking
Your establishment will need • Polices and Procedures• Staff training
What to do
Safer foodbet ter business
for caterers
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• Visit the caterer• Schedule a tasting• See how food is presented and labeled• Ask what they can accommodate – allergies, etc.• Look at what is supplied – example should show the ingredients • Ask for recommendations• See if they have any awards• Review their food safety management system• Check food rating – would you eat at less than a five?• Obtain copy of their rating report • Ask for Insurances• Carry out your own hygiene inspection checklist
Outline the factors to consider when selecting a caterer … (a contractor)?
VariousPhoto: Jonathan Backhouse
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https://www.food.gov.uk/sites/default/files/multimedia/pdfs/pdf-ni/safe-catering-hygiene.pdf
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Thank you, any questions?
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Jonathan Backhouse, MRes MA BA(Hons) DipNEBOSH EnvDipNEBOSH CertEd CMIOSH(CIEH Level 4 Certificate in Advanced Food Hygiene)
Jonathan BackhouseAssociates