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[hygienic]

Dear All:

I need your suggestion regarding the coloring system used in catering services.

Do you have any idea in which things can we apply ?

I mean there is a colour code system applied or implemented for cutting board.
and what is else?

and if there is a color code system for the kitchen tools like knife and tablespoon what is the specifice colors that I have to select according to the kitchen sections .


Best Regards
Hygienic

Edited by hygienic, 13 May 2010 - 08:55 AM.

[Jean]

Do you have any idea in which things can we apply ?

I mean there is a colour code system applied or implemented for cutting board.
and what is else?

Dear Hygienic,

Colour coding can be used for storage crates, dusters, date labels, cleaning buckets and knives.

[Simon]

Have you got any photos to share Jean?

[Zeeshan]

May be following links provide some help!

http://thecookskitchen.com/browse_792

http://www.amazon.co...s/dp/B001K7HXM0 (See the product description)

Regards:
Zeeshan.

[Jomy Abraham]

Cutting board and knife
Blue - fish ( blue sea)
Red- Meat ( blood red of meat)
Green- Vegetables ( green veg)
Yellow- cooked meat ( fried golden yellow)
White - Bread and Dairy products ( milky white)
Additional boards
Brown- Can be used for vegetables to be used for cooked veg ( green can be used for salad based vegetables)

Color coded brooms/brushes/scrubbers
red - floor
green- table surfaces
Black-equipments
yellow- toilets
you can specify any color

all equipment should be Stainles steel
wooden handles are not recomended

for food distribution food crates
For veg- green
For non veg- red

Expiry date displays
first expiry- red ( near expiry product among these three)
second expiry- yellow
third expiry- green

you can define your own color codes. Once its documented, follow it...


Regards
Jomy Abraham

Dear All:

I need your suggestion regarding the coloring system used in catering services.

Do you have any idea in which things can we apply ?

I mean there is a colour code system applied or implemented for cutting board.
and what is else?

and if there is a color code system for the kitchen tools like knife and tablespoon what is the specifice colors that I have to select according to the kitchen sections .


Best Regards
Hygienic

Edited by Jomy Abraham, 08 February 2011 - 05:26 AM.

[Rizwan Ahmed]

well explained by Jomy, further building up what he said, you can also apply color coding for Unboxing crates as well such as:

Yellow crates (similar to vegetable crates): Dry unboxed items

Red: meat/poultry

Blue: Seafood

in some cases floors are also color coded e.g. red in butchery areas and yellow in ready to eat process areas.



regards.



Riz

Cutting board and knife
Blue - fish ( blue sea)
Red- Meat ( blood red of meat)
Green- Vegetables ( green veg)
Yellow- cooked meat ( fried golden yellow)
White - Bread and Dairy products ( milky white)
Additional boards
Brown- Can be used for vegetables to be used for cooked veg ( green can be used for salad based vegetables)

Color coded brooms/brushes/scrubbers
red - floor
green- table surfaces
Black-equipments
yellow- toilets
you can specify any color

all equipment should be Stainles steel
wooden handles are not recomended

for food distribution food crates
For veg- green
For non veg- red

Expiry date displays
first expiry- red ( near expiry product among these three)
second expiry- yellow
third expiry- green

you can define your own color codes. Once its documented, follow it...


Regards
Jomy Abraham

[hygienic]

well explained by Jomy, further building up what he said, you can also apply color coding for Unboxing crates as well such as:

Yellow crates (similar to vegetable crates): Dry unboxed items

Red: meat/poultry

Blue: Seafood

in some cases floors are also color coded e.g. red in butchery areas and yellow in ready to eat process areas.



regards.



Riz

Hi Riz :

I agree with you for all kind of colour code systems, but for floor , can not agree , how come ?
so difficult ,but I think if there is like this , Butchery area will be a nice place every thing red , just joke ......

Regards
Hygienic

[Colorful]

Great information here! I would ask this as a new thread, but my computer won't allow me to! I wanted to know what the history of this standard color scheme (Red- raw meat, Green - produce, White - bread/milk ect.) for cutting boards. Who established it and how/when was this color scheme accepted/adopted as widespread standard.

It is sometimes called 6 board system or HAACP colors.

Accodring to FSIS via email (at US Dept of Agriculture) A cutting board color coding system is more of a voluntary SOP in the industry than a regulatory requirement and FSIS didn’t create it. FSIS regulations do not require or prescribe any color-coding system for the cutting boards or utensils used by an official establishment."

Anyone have any info?

Edited by Colorful, 13 August 2023 - 02:18 AM.