Posted By Jim Walker Ian, This has nothing to do with your question, but I noticed the other day that the national Motorcycle museum has burnt down. Evidently, £19M worth of rare bikes were destroyed. Cause - folks having a quite smoke out the back and nowhere to dispose their butts.

Posted By Bill Elliott Your parent is right to be concerned. This is a practice that should not be allowed to continue. One of the basic principles of food safety is avoiding cross contamination. Everything that is likely to come into contact with food, that includes the staff and their clothing, should be the subject of risk assessment or HACCP (Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points). The critical control point in this case is the clothing and personal hygiene of the staff. The legal requirement "Every person working in a food handling area shall maintain a high degree of personal cleanliness and shall wear suitable, clean and ,where appropriate, protective clothing". Regulation 4 places the onus on the proprietor to ensure these requirements are met. The good practice guide says " staff.....should not travel to their place of work in their protective clothing. They should also remove protective clothing if they leave the premises for other reasons, for example to smoke"