A foreign object in food that could cause injury or illness, such as glass, metal, plastic, stones or hair.
Glass, metal fragments, hard plastic, stones, bone, pest debris, and personal items such as jewellery, buttons, plasters or hair that fall into food during handling.
From raw ingredients, from equipment that breaks or wears, from packaging, from the premises such as broken glass or flaking paint, and from food handlers and their clothing or jewellery.
Maintain equipment and premises, use shatterproof materials, keep glass away from food, inspect deliveries, enforce jewellery and hair rules, and use sieves, magnets or detectors where appropriate.
Stop work in the area, isolate and discard any food that could have been affected, clean up the glass thoroughly, and check surrounding surfaces before resuming to make sure no fragments remain.
Often, but not always. Small fragments can be hard to see or hidden in food, so prevention through good practices and controls is more reliable than relying on spotting them.