Food Safety Atlas

Temperature monitoring equipment

Step 1 of 10

Choose equipment fit for the place

What happens

Choose a model for the use: cold room, freezer, hot cart, or a wet or hot area. Confirm your record system can read it, then try it.

Good looks like

A model is trialled in the coldest, wettest place it will have to work.

How it goes wrong

The cheapest sensor goes in a freezer it wasn't rated for, and its battery dies within weeks.

Who
Technical

Equipment must allow its temperature to be , and devices used to monitor and record temperature should be checked for accuracy and regularly. Most law names no technology. Singapore is an exception: food processing establishments must fit every cold store with a gauge, an on-line temperature recorder and an automatic high-temperature alert, and meat, fish and egg licensees need recording thermometers.

§9.3, §13.2