Contamination of food

Even if you and your team keep excellent personal hygiene, food can still become unsafe to eat in many different ways. The first step to making sure a guest is never served contaminated food at your venue is being able to understand different factors that can lead to food becoming contaminated, and recognizing when food is no longer safe to serve.

In this lesson, Alastair McLeod explains how and why food can become contaminated.

What you’ll learn

• How food can become unsafe
• Common causes of food contamination
• Ways to identify contaminated food

This course is aimed at any hospitality worker who comes into contact with food or customers.