How to Get a 5* on the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme Continued.

Assessment of your Food Hygiene Arrangements

In addition to developing and maintaining a documented food safety management system (discussed in the last post), to achieve a 5* rating you need to be able to demonstrate that you have excellent food hygiene standards too. Generally speaking, when food safety officers assess food hygiene standards they look at what are known as the "Four C's"

1. Cleaning and the standard of cleanliness.
2. Cross contamination risk from raw foods to ready to eat foods.
3. Cooking and hot holding - is the food reaching a high enough temperature for the correct amount of time and when hot holding is the food kept at 63 degrees Celsius or above.
4. Chilling and cold storage - is hot food cooled quickly enough and are high risk foods kept at 8 degrees Celsius or below. 

If you can demonstrate you have control of the "Four C's" and the structure of the premises is satisfactory and your documented food safety management system is effective and up to date, then your business should be awarded a 5*

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