Food Temperature Chart Poster for Restaurants and Commercial Kitchens
Key Features
- Safe minimum internal temperatures on one chart: Freezer and refrigerator storage through cooking, holding temperatures, and reheating, so nobody on the line has to guess.
- Danger zone made clear: Shows the FDA food service danger zone (41-135°F) and the USDA consumer range (40-140°F), so food handlers know when food must be held hot, held cold, or discarded.
- Health department ready: Temperatures follow USDA, FDA, and FSIS guidance, a clear posted reference for board of health inspections and food handler training.
- For restaurants, commercial kitchens, and classrooms: Large icons read from across the room in restaurant kitchens, school cafeterias, catering prep areas, and culinary classrooms.
Learning Objectives and Benefits:
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The food safety poster defines the up-to-date, proper temperatures for food safety from the USDA.
- Freezer and long-term freezer storage
- Proper refrigerator temperature range
- Whole meat versus ground meat
- Proper poultry temperature
- Reheating leftovers and casseroles
- Meat temperatures
- Danger zone 41-135°F for food service, with a note about the USDA consumer range of 40-140°F
- Extreme danger zone (70-125°F)
- Discard food left in the danger zone more than 2 hours, or 1 hour above 90°F
- Holding hot foods
- Boiling at sea level and altitude
- Perfect for commercial kitchens
- A great addition to your kitchen, restaurant, cafeteria, classroom, and any food preparation area where you need to remind everyone about proper temperatures for food preparation
- Includes icons and colors for easy understanding
- Laminated
- 18" X 24"
- Temperatures and tips from Cheryle Jones Syracuse, MS.
- Source: USDA, FDA, FSIS, NRA
- References and more information URLs are given, too
- It also makes a great classroom poster and can be used as a school cafeteria poster.
Target population: In English, for general audiences ages 12 - 100
This poster comes with a free handout download PDF, Four Steps of Food Safety, shown in the images above.
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