Food hygiene and quality

This page contains downloadable guidance sheets covering a wide range of food safety and food hygiene issues. If you cannot find the information you require, then please feel free to contact the Food Safety Team as we hold a large stock of leaflets and advice sheets provided by a number of different organisations.

You may also find the following websites useful:

Contact details

Food Safety Team
Broadgate House
Broadgate
Coventry
CV1 1NH
e-mail: ehcommercial@coventry.gov.uk
Office: 024 7683 1848
Fax: 024 7683 2154

Downloadable documents

About PDFs and Accessibility

Campylobacter - information about the illness (PDF 130kb) (file size unavailable)
Advice for mobile food businesses (PDF 154kb) (file size unavailable)
Cooking for special occasions (PDF 177kb) (file size unavailable)
Barbecuing safely (PDF 65kb) (file size unavailable)
Soft ice cream - hygiene advice for ice cream sellers (PDF 122kb) (file size unavailable)
Cockroaches - how to deal with them in a food business (PDF 165kb) (file size unavailable)
Daily checks at food premises - a handy checklist (PDF 157kb) (file size unavailable)
Cooking - advice about safe cooking temperatures (PDF 100kb) (file size unavailable)
Cleaning schedules (PDF 154kb) (file size unavailable)
Cod worms - information sheet about worms in fish (PDF 138kb) (file size unavailable)
Cleaning materials - types available and local suppliers (PDF 112kb) (file size unavailable)
Hygiene checklist for food businesses (PDF 94kb) (file size unavailable)
Naringin - (the white spots in tinned grapefruit) - information (PDF 102kb) (file size unavailable)
Rice - advice about cooking, cooling and storing safely (PDF 130kb) (file size unavailable)
Farm visits - avoiding illness during children's trips (PDF 137kb) (file size unavailable)
Food handlers - advice on returning to work after illness (PDF 147kb) (file size unavailable)
Struvite - crystals in tinned fish (PDF 126kb) (file size unavailable)
Psocids (book lice) - how to get rid of the from your kitchen cupboards (PDF 126kb) (file size unavailable)
E Coli 0157 food poisoning - information and advice (PDF 109kb) (file size unavailable)
Food premises - basic information about structure and equipment requirement (PDF 143KB) (file size unavailable)
Eggs - advice about labelling for producers (PDF 123kb) (file size unavailable)
Hazard analysis - an example for cooking chicken (PDF 107kb) (file size unavailable)
Medical questionnaire - for use with new employees in the food trade (PDF 104kb) (file size unavailable)
Mice - advice on how to control them in food businesses (PDF 160kb) (file size unavailable)
Donner Kebab Advice Sheet (52 kb)
Safer Food Better Business Instruction Sheet (89 kb)