Hygiene services

The services we offer as an inspection body rely on our core areas of expertise:

• Hygiene inspections in catering establishments, bakeries, butcher's shops, etc. 
• Hygiene inspections of kitchens in communal catering facilities and businesses that process and sell food (e.g. cheese dairies, smokehouses, etc.).
• Audits in industrial production facilities.

Our hygiene inspection services ensure that your business meets the highest hygiene standards. Our experienced inspectors check your kitchen facilities, food handling practices and cleanliness to ensure compliance with all statutory guidelines and regulations under the HYV. Our inspections enable potential risks to be identified and addressed at an early stage, before they lead to problems.

Our inspection body also provides inspection services for drinking and bathing water.

Since 1 May 2017, the federal government has set out requirements regarding the quality and treatment of water for publicly accessible shower facilities and bathing areas (swimming pools, including whirlpools, thermal baths, mineral baths, brine baths, wellness baths, therapeutic baths, children’s paddling pools and water pools with biological treatment of the bathing water).

As part of their self-monitoring procedures, all operators of public shower facilities are required to comply with the legal requirements of the Federal Ordinance on Drinking, Bathing and Shower Water (TBDV):

• Testing of shower water. Test results regarding compliance with the maximum limit for Legionella spp.
• Documentation of shower water quality. Records of the temperature of hot water systems and archiving of test results from Legionella analyses.
• Implementation of self-monitoring. Annual sampling and analysis of shower and bath water in accordance with TBDV, Annex 5
• Microbiology in accordance with TBDV.
• On-site sampling.
• Audits, in-house training.

As a provider of hygiene services for catering establishments, our primary aim is to safeguard the health and safety of our clients and their guests. For this reason, we offer training courses in food safety to ensure that our clients and their staff are kept up to date with the latest findings and best practices in the field of hygiene.

Our training courses cover the following topics:

1.     Kitchen hygiene: We show our customers how to clean and disinfect their kitchens and work areas effectively and hygienically to prevent food contamination and the spread of infections.

2.     Food safety: We explain the key principles of food safety to our customers, including the best practices regarding storage, handling and preparation of food, in order to minimise the risk of food poisoning and foodborne infections.

3.     Staff training: We offer training courses for our clients’ staff to ensure they are up to date with the latest best practices in hygiene. We also show them how to identify and report potential hazards and how to avoid them.

Our training courses are interactive and practical, and are led by experienced food safety specialists. They have many years of experience in the catering industry and in the field of food safety inspections, wich help them ensure that the training is practical and solution-oriented.

We look forward to assisting you in this area.