Food Safety
Check out the Top 10 Food Safety Tips for Volunteers
How do you properly clean and sanitize your equipment without a dishwasher? Here is a factsheet on how to prepare a sanitizer solution using household bleach and using a 3-sink method
For general guidelines for the shelf life of common foods, check out the Food Handlers’ Storage Guide
The Health Unit also provides training to people working to prepare food. For more information, contact your local health unit at 1-866-888-4577 and speak with a Public Health Inspector.
General Food Safety Information
For more information on food safety, check out the following sites
- Food Safety
- Canadian Partnership for Consumer Food Safety Education
- Halliburton, Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit