Three food safety legislation.
These are three key points that I will be talking about that relate to food when preparing, cooking or serving the food.
Food safety, Food hygiene, Food inspections
Food safety act 1990
Food safety is really important because you will be handling food that you don’t want to come across any harmful bacteria that can affect people’s health.
For example you would need to make sure that the food is safe to eat this can be done by making sure that the food is cooked correctly and has been stored in the right place.
Another way to ensure that the “food safety” policy is put into place is by making sure you don’t add, remove or treat food in a way that makes it harmful to eat for example storing cooked food with uncooked meat.
Make sure the food is the same quality that you say it is. This is important because customers will be expecting you to be serving them fresh food if you have said or placed labels on packagings.
If food is slightly out of date and you decided to still serve it then this can cause people to become ill as they did not know as you placed false labels on your food. This would mean that you are making sure you don’t mislead people by the way food is labelled, advertised or marketed.

A few other things that you should make sure you ensure to do if you handle or serve food is to * Keep records on where you got food from and show this information if needed. * Withdraw unsafe food and complete an incident report * tell people why food has been withdrawn or recalled, e.g. a leaflet or poster
And lastly display your food hygiene rating (if you sell food direct to the public).

Food hygiene
Food hygiene is very important when it comes to serving, cooking and handling food.
This is because there are many different bacteria that can get you sick. These are some ways that you can help you