✅ Ontario: food premises regulation (O. Reg. 493/17) requires refrigeration at or below 4°C, freezer storage at or below -18°C, and hot holding at or above 60°C, with records available to the local public health inspector on request. ⚠️ British Columbia and Alberta have their own, similar food-premises regulations.
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FOOD TEMPERATURE LOG
Business: Province: Date: Time: Recorded by:
This log documents temperature control at prescribed points, consistent with Ontario Regulation 493/17 (Food Premises) — refrigeration at or below 4°C, freezer storage at or below -18°C, and hot holding at or above 60°C. ⚠️ British Columbia (Food Premises Regulation) and Alberta (Food Regulation) impose their own, broadly similar requirements — confirm the exact thresholds for the selected province.
1. CONTROL POINT AND READING 1.1. Control point: . 1.2. Temperature: °C. 1.3. Within required range: .
2. CORRECTIVE ACTION 2.1.
3. RECORD RETENTION 3.1. Records of this kind should be available to the local public health inspector on request; as a matter of practice, retain records for at least one year.
Recorded by ______________ / / Date:
This is a boilerplate template, not legal advice. Employment, consumer-protection, privacy, and food-safety law in Canada is largely PROVINCIAL — this template uses Ontario (Employment Standards Act, 2000 / Occupational Health and Safety Act) as its default reference jurisdiction and flags with ⚠️ the specific British Columbia, Alberta, and Quebec divergences named in the underlying research, but it does not resolve every provincial variation for you. Quebec employers additionally have French-language obligations under the Charte de la langue française (Bill 96) that are handled as a separate French-language document, not by this English template. Have this document reviewed and adapted by a lawyer licensed in the relevant province before use, and confirm the current minimums/thresholds in force on the date of use — termination-clause case law in particular (Waksdale, Dufault, Chan and successors) changes year to year.
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