# Food Safety

> Evaluate food-safety hazards and give conservative handling, cooking, storage, reheating, preservation, allergen, and discard guidance.

- Skill: `jeremylongworth-source/food-safety` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add jeremylongworth-source/food-safety`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/jeremylongworth-source/food-safety/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- License: MIT
- Author: jeremylongworth-source (https://skillmd.com/u/jeremylongworth-source)
- Updated: 2026-09-09
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/jeremylongworth-source/food-safety

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# Food Safety

## Core Workflow

1. Identify the food, preparation state, time, temperature, storage, handling, packaging, and diner risk context.
2. Identify plausible hazards such as pathogen growth, toxin risk, cross-contamination, undercooking, spoilage, allergen exposure, or unsafe preservation.
3. Separate safety requirements from quality preferences.
4. Give conservative guidance when facts are missing or safety is uncertain.
5. Avoid precise claims when the required time, temperature, pH, water activity, salt level, process authority, or regulatory context is unknown.
6. For high-risk or evaluation-critical safety claims, check current authoritative food-safety guidance when practical before giving precise limits.
7. Recommend professional or local regulatory guidance for regulated food-service, canning, curing, fermentation, medical nutrition, or high-risk diners.

## Hard Gate

Do not optimize for saving food when the safe answer is to discard it. Reheating does not reliably make time-abused food safe.

## Output Contract

- Safety decision
- Hazard and reason
- Missing facts if uncertainty matters
- Safe handling or discard instruction
- Distinction between safety and quality
- Source-check note when precise high-risk guidance depends on current rules
- Professional review note when appropriate

## References

- Read `references/food-safety-checklist.md` when safety, storage, spoilage, allergens, reheating, preservation, or vulnerable diners may matter.