Food safety adminstration system

• US 20020035439A1
• Filed: 03/03/2001
• Published: 03/21/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: McDonald's Corporation, Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Yokogawa M & C Corporation (Yokogawa Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: McDonald's Corporation, Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Yokogawa M & C Corporation (Yokogawa Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Murakami, Kenji, Takeda, Kazumi, Kusano, Atsushi
• Granted Patent: US 6,577,969 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/81
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A food safety adminstration system for controlling safety of of food handling locations, wherein a mobile inspection terminal measures the temperature of an object under test or receives data on the pass or failure status of the object; a device records the temperature data and the pass or failure data, according to check items on a checklist; and a device controls the safety of the location and of the food therein using the temperature data and pass or failure data provided as test data by the mobile inspection terminal,whereby data is reliably and quickly checked without use of paper based data.

Claims

1. A food safety adminstration system comprising:

mobile inspection terminal means for measuring temperature of an object under test and for receiving data on pass or failure of said object according to check items on a checklist;

means for recording temperature data and pass or failure data; and

thereby controlling safety of a food shop or factory using said temperature data and pass or failure data provided as test data by said mobile inspection terminal means.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said mobile inspection terminal means comprises:

temperature measuring means for measuring temperature of said object;

storage means for storing a checklist and test data;

item selection means for selecting check items from said checklist in said storage means;

input means for providing instructions to said item selection means and for ordering said temperature measuring means to acquire temperature data and to receive pass or failure data; and

data processing means for storing temperature data provided by said temperature measuring means and said pass or failure data provided by said input means, in said storage means as said test data, according to a check item selected by said item selection means.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein said mobile inspection terminal means comprises means for selecting check items lacking corresponding test data from said checklist and said test data.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said checklist contains reference temperature;

and wherein said mobile inspection terminal means comprises means for displaying said reference temperature and said check items.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein said mobile inspection terminal means comprises checker selection means for selecting checker data from said checklist;

and means for handling said checker data selected by said checker selection means as a test data item.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein said mobile inspection terminal means comprises clock means for providing a date, time or both;

and means for handling an output from said clock means as a test data item.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising a computer into which said test data from said mobile inspection terminal means is inputted to create a table of test results.

15. The system of claim 1, further comprising a computer for editing said checklist;

and wherein said edited checklist is inputted to said mobil inspection terminal means.

17. The system of claim 9, further comprising a computer for editing said checklist;

and wherein said edited checklist is inputted to said mobile inspection terminal.

2. A food safety adminstration system comprising:

mobile inspection terminal means for measuring temperature of an object under test and for receiving data on pass or failure of said object according to check items on a checklist;

means for recording temperature data and pass or failure dat and

thereby controlling hygiene or safety of food using said temperature data and pass or failure data provided as test data by said mobile inspection terminal means.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein said mobile inspection terminal means comprises:

temperature measuring means for measuring temperature of said object;

storage means for storing a checklist and test data;

item selection means for selecting check items from said checklist in said storage means;

input means for providing instructions to said item selection means and for ordering said temperature measuring means to acquire temperature data and to receive pass or failure data; and

data processing means for storing temperature data provided by said temperature measuring means and said pass or failure data provided by said input means,in said storage means as said test data, according to a check item selected by said item selection means.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein said mobile inspection terminal means comprises means for selecting check items lacking corresponding test data from said checklist and said test data.

8. The system of claim 2, wherein said checklist contains reference temperature;

and wherein said mobile inspection terminal means comprises means for displaying said reference temperature and said check items.

10. The system of claim 2, wherein said mobile inspection terminal means comprises checker selection means for selecting checker data from said checklist;

and means for handling said checker data selected by said checker selection means as a test data item.

12. The system of claim 2, wherein said mobile inspection terminal means comprises clock means for providing a date, time or both;

and means for handling an output from said clock means as a test data item.

14. The system of claim 2, further comprising a computer into which said test data from said mobile inspection terminal means is inputted to create a table of test results.

16. The system of claim 2, further comprising means for editing said checklist;

and wherein said edited checklist is inputted to said mobile inspection terminal means.

18. The system of claim 10, further comprising a computer for editing said checklist;

and wherein said edited checklist is inputted to said mobile inspection terminal means.