Tag: food safety

Can You Eat Burgers Medium Rare?

Can You Eat Burgers Medium Rare?

Many burger restaurants now serve their patties medium rare, leaving some uncertain about the food safety guidelines around burgers. Are there any risks involved in eating a pink burger at a restaurant? And if there aren’t, can you serve them medium rare at home, too? 

6 Tips for Safe Food Storage — Keep Food Fresher for Longer

6 Tips for Safe Food Storage — Keep Food Fresher for Longer

Much of the UK public is storing food items incorrectly, which is increasing a combination of household and commercial kitchen food waste and putting health at risk. Storing eggs within storage or holders that are built into fridge doors poses a health or spoiling risk 

EHO Visits — Temperature Tips From a Food Safety Advisor

EHO Visits — Temperature Tips From a Food Safety Advisor

EHO visits can seem scary, stressful and intimidating for businesses. But there’s no need for them to be. Environmental health officers only want to ensure you comply with food hygiene laws to keep your customers safe and your business HACCP compliant. All elements of an 

Beginner’s Guide to HACCP Temperature Requirements

Beginner’s Guide to HACCP Temperature Requirements

HACCP is a system that helps businesses manage food safety. It involves identifying, monitoring and controlling food risks to prevent hazards from occurring. Every business is different, so they must use HACCP principles to develop a food safety management system that applies to their own 

A Guide to ISO EN 13485-Certified Food Thermometers For Cold Chain Temperature Monitoring

A Guide to ISO EN 13485-Certified Food Thermometers For Cold Chain Temperature Monitoring

Ensuring that equipment for safety processes is reliable and fit for purpose often involves carrying out tests using a particular standard. If the equipment passes these tests, it is certified for that standard.  There are two types of ISO EN 13485 tests; one verifies the 

5 Best Catering Thermometers For Your HACCP Plan

5 Best Catering Thermometers For Your HACCP Plan

HACCP temperatures need to be taken several times a day, every day. So finding the best food safety thermometers for your business is really important. The main type of thermometer that you will need for taking your daily checks is a penetration probe, as this 

What is a Calibration Certificate & Do I Need One?

What is a Calibration Certificate & Do I Need One?

What is a calibration certificate? Why do you need it? Is it a legal requirement? We answer all of these questions and more to help you understand everything you need to know about calibration certificates. We also took a look at one of our UKAS 

ETI Food Safety & Waste White Paper 2022

ETI Food Safety & Waste White Paper 2022

CHAPTER 1 FOOD SAFETY AND WASTE: THE RISK FACTORS The dual challenges facing the UK – the Covid-19 crisis and the implementation of Brexit – have shed new light on the business and industry catering sector. 2020 saw the sector under threat and mass surplus 

How to Use a Food Thermometer Accurately

How to Use a Food Thermometer Accurately

At ETI we manufacture a range of different food thermometers, many of which use penetration probes to measure the internal temperatures of liquid and solid foods. There are several different types of food thermometer probes that we make: thermocouple, thermistor and PT100. Each type varies 

A temperature guide to the cook-chill process

A temperature guide to the cook-chill process

A key step in food preparation for many businesses, we investigated the importance of the cook-chill process on food safety, quality and business efficiency.   What is the cook-chill process? The cook-chill process is a method of pre-preparing large quantities of cooked food. The food