Caterers
Consultancy Services
According to the Health Protection Agency, the total number of food poisoning cases for England and Wales in 2004 was just over 70,000. Most people believe that this is a substantial underestimate of the problem, as not all cases of food poisoning are reported by those affected.
Moonlight Environmental Ltd provides bespoke food safety and food hygiene consultancy to caterers. We assist individual and chains of hotels, restaurants, canteens, coffee bars, sandwich bars and event caterers to produce quality, safe food. We help businesses by developing :
- Analyses of food safety hazards or HACCPs (hazard analysis critical control point systems)
- Policies (e.g. food safety, staff and visitor health surveillance, staff training, complaints and product recall and supplier auditing)
- Control checks (e.g. microbiological and chemical sampling schedule, weekly audit, food processing records)
While assisting businesses to comply with legal requirements, clients gain additional benefits:
- our Manaaging Director is highly respected by Local Authority Environmental Health Officers for her technical and legal expertise in this field. By involving her in the liaison with enforcers, they will know that you are serious about food safety.
- less product wastage
- fewer customer complaints
- better motivated staff
All analyses of food safety hazards are written after site visits (or videoconference) with discussion of processes and menus. Similarly, all control documentation is tailor-made for each client or site.
Auditing
We recommend regular audits; these help you to:
- know what is around the corner in the next local authority inspection report
- lower insurance premiums for taking a proactive approach to food safety
- demonstrate accredited third party auditing which shows potential customers and enforcers your commitment to food safety
- demonstrate a defence of due diligence should legal action be threatened
