UK: Food safety scheme for all languages - (Newsquest)
January 28, 2008 – 8:00 pmChinese restaurant and takeaway owners have, according to this story, learnt all about food safety management in their native language - thanks to South Somerset District Council when it held a Safer Food, Better Business’ seminar with a Cantonese speaking trainer.
The English courses last year were such a hit that more than 220 businesses came along and it was this success that prompted the Food Standards Agency to fund the council as the host for a special course run in Chinese.
The council’s principal environmental health officer, Stewart Brock, was quoted as saying, “The courses show people in the food industry how they can better their businesses by taking a look at how they handle food safety.”
Concentrating on the 4 C’s of cooking - cleaning, cross-contamination and chilling - the seminar helps managers focus on the key issues in food safety using a management pack produced in both Chinese and English.
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