EHO Story 📩 Most of my EHO stories involve something going wrong. This one doesn’t. In fact, this food business got it right. They were catering for a large event.

EHO Story 📩 There’s a moment during inspections that I’ve seen many, many times. And it usually starts quite well. I’m in the kitchen, talking to the chef, and we

EHO Story 📩 You’d think after years of inspecting kitchens and warning people about food poisoning, I’d know exactly how to avoid it myself. But once, I believe I got

EHO Story 📩 I once went to do a routine food hygiene inspection at a takeaway. Nothing out of the ordinary. Just the usual checks while the team hovered nearby

EHO Story 📩 A fellow Environmental Health Officer once shared a story that’s stayed with me ever since. They were interviewing a food business owner who hadn’t followed up on

EHO Story 📩 Back in my local government days, I was inspecting a pub. The inspection was going fairly well until I asked to see the cooling records. Every single

EHO Story 📩 Food inspections come with their fair share of surprises. Sometimes it’s mouldy food, sometimes a broken fridge, sometimes evidence of pests. But then there are moments you

EHO Story 📩 When I worked in local government, there was a moment in inspections that came up more than once. And every time, it told me A LOT. I’d

EHO Story 📩 There are certain questions EHOs and auditors ask during inspections that instantly reveal how well a kitchen understands its food safety systems. One of those questions is