Real stories. Practical food safety advice.

EHO Story 📩 Picture this. I’d been an Environmental Health Officer for a few years, and I was walking into what I thought would be a fairly routine food hygiene…

EHO Story 📩 Over the past year, I have travelled around France quite a bit. I love France. I love the small villages, wandering around the markets, and of course…

EHO Story 📩 Most of my EHO stories involve something going wrong. This one doesn’t. In fact, this food business got it right. They were catering for a large event.…

EHO Story 📩 There’s a moment during inspections that I’ve seen many, many times. And it usually starts quite well. I’m in the kitchen, talking to the chef, and we…

EHO Story 📩 You’d think after years of inspecting kitchens and warning people about food poisoning, I’d know exactly how to avoid it myself. But once, I believe I got…

EHO Story 📩 I once went to do a routine food hygiene inspection at a takeaway. Nothing out of the ordinary. Just the usual checks while the team hovered nearby…

EHO Story 📩 A fellow Environmental Health Officer once shared a story that’s stayed with me ever since. They were interviewing a food business owner who hadn’t followed up on…

EHO Story 📩 Back in my local government days, I was inspecting a pub. The inspection was going fairly well until I asked to see the cooling records. Every single…

EHO Story 📩 Food inspections come with their fair share of surprises. Sometimes it’s mouldy food, sometimes a broken fridge, sometimes evidence of pests. But then there are moments you…

EHO Story 📩 When I worked in local government, there was a moment in inspections that came up more than once. And every time, it told me A LOT. I’d…

EHO Story 📩 There are certain questions EHOs and auditors ask during inspections that instantly reveal how well a kitchen understands its food safety systems. One of those questions is…

EHO Story 📩 Gloves have always been a bug bear for EHOs. Not because they are inherently bad, but because of how they are used. People treat them like a…

EHO Story 📩 One of the questions I get asked a lot, especially from food business owners is: “What actually happens when someone complains about us?” Whether it’s a customer…

EHO Story 📩 Today, I want to talk about prep labelling. This is not one single horror story, but a greatest hits collection of prep labelling mistakes I have seen over years…

EHO Story 📩 I’ve seen all kinds of reactions during food hygiene inspections… nervous laughs, awkward jokes, even the odd sigh or eye roll. But this one really surprised me.…