The certificates said they were trained
EHO Story 📩 There is something I have seen over the years inspecting kitchens that has always bothered me. Being proudly handed food safety training certificates, only to then watch…
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The deli counter disaster
EHO Story 📩 My husband and I had popped out for the afternoon and needed to grab some lunch on the way. There is a fairly fancy butchers and deli…
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Why would I check the temperature of my dishwasher?
EHO Story 📩 When I worked in local government, there was a time that I used to ask businesses whether they checked their dishwasher temperatures. And one question that often…
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I was supposed to be relaxing..
EHO Story 📩 I want to share a story from when I was travelling around the Canary Islands. Picture this. I was sat at a bar, sangria in hand, overlooking…
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Why food hygiene inspections feel like a gamble
EHO Story 📩 Picture this. I’d been an Environmental Health Officer for a few years, and I was walking into what I thought would be a fairly routine food hygiene…
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This is an EHO’s worst nightmare
EHO Story 📩 Over the past year, I have travelled around France quite a bit. I love France. I love the small villages, wandering around the markets, and of course…
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An EHO story with no disaster? 😲
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.…
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Can you show me how you take a temperature?
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…
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The holiday that turned into a food safety lesson
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…
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I broke their fridge… or so I thought
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…
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When a zero score made someone give up…
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…
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“Perfect” cooling records… or so it seemed
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…
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The inspection that left us speechless
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…
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Then I asked for the probe
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…
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The probe thermometer question inspectors love to ask
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…
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