Liam Jones
Founder, Pilla App
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Learn how to run effective food delivery checks, build them into your food safety system with Pilla, and use AI to automate the process.
Join Liam Jones, founder of Pilla and a qualified food safety consultant, for a session on food delivery checks.
Understand
Every food item you receive has been processed, stored, and transported, often changing hands several times. Once you accept a delivery, you take responsibility for that food. Delivery checks are your first line of defence against unsafe food entering your kitchen.
There are three things to check on every delivery: packaging condition (intact seals, no damage, no contamination), temperature (chilled food below 8°C, frozen food below -15°C), and date codes (enough time to use products before use-by dates expire). You should always reject chilled food above 15°C, frozen food that has thawed and refrozen, cans dented at seams, vacuum packs with broken seals, products past their use-by date, and anything showing signs of pest contamination or strong off-odours.
Delivery checks mean nothing if food is then left sitting at room temperature. Prioritise storage in this order: frozen items first, then fresh meat and fish, then other chilled items, and finally ambient goods. Recording the supplier, items received, batch codes, and any issues creates a paper trail. If there is a food safety incident, authorities can trace affected products back to source, and your records demonstrate due diligence.
Apply
See how food delivery checks fit into your wider food safety management system in Pilla. We walk through how to build this into your system so that your team has clear processes, accountability, and a documented trail that proves compliance.
Automate
Learn how AI can speed up this process and connect Pilla to your other tools, giving you a much more joined up system across your business.
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