Recommended Reading
We've compiled a list of links that we recommend for professionals searching for food safety and food hygiene training and development courses. If this service has been useful and interesting to you, recommend us to your friends and colleagues; links to our site are also always welcome.
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Recommended Reading:
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Certificate in Food Hygiene Awareness - Level 1
Essential Food Hygiene (Book) Fourth Edition 2010 by Dr RJ Donaldson OBEThis guide is the essential text for Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene, Food Hygiene Awareness, and the Level 2 Awards in Food Safety.
It reflects throughout changes brought about by new legislation, particularly the need for food safety management procedures based on the principles of HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point). As well as being an ideal up-to date text for students preparing for examinations in food hygiene and safety, the purpose of this book is to enable anybody who works with food to understand what they need to do to ensure that the food is safe to eat. It is particularly relevant to people whose job involves working with food but it is also relevant to anybody who handles food at home and to young people who are learning about food.
Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering
Nutrition and the Fundamentals of NutritionAn easy-to-use handbook for owners, managers, chefs and other staff of care homes for older people, providing up-to-date advice on the nutritional needs of residents and suggestions on how to meet these needs in interesting new ways.
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Recommended Websites
Food Standards Agency
http://www.food.gov.uk
Eatwell Website
http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/healthydiet/eatwellplate/
Department of Health
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/index.htm
British Nutrition Foundation
http://britishnutrition.org.uk/home.
British Dietetic Association
http://www.bda.uk.com/foodfacts/
British Diabetic Association (for special diets for diabetics) http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Food_and_recipes/
