What type of thermometer is a food businesses required to use?
The Food Safety Standards requires food businesses that store, transport, prepare, cook or sell potentially hazardous food to have a thermometer that can be inserted into the food. This means it must have a probe. The thermometer must also be accurate to +/- 1°C. Equipment that is used to store and display food such as cool rooms, bain-marie units, and sandwich display units may have a thermometer as part of the equipment. This thermometer will measure the operational temperature of the unit. While these thermometers are useful, they do not measure the actual temperature of the food and you will still need a separate probe thermometer to check the actual temperature of the food.
