The Food Safety App

Hot holding record sheet

The Food Standards Agency’s SC4 record sheet as published, for food held hot or on display.

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Hot held and displayed food, with the time it went out.

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Published by the Food Standards Agency. We are not affiliated with it.

Where this came from. This file is byte for byte what the Food Standards Agency publishes. Last compared on 20 October 2026.

The agency’s own page for it, and we re-check every file against it each week.

Or let the app fill it in

The app keeps this record and prints it onto this same form, so what an inspector sees is the sheet above with your entries on it. It is free, with no paid tier holding any of it back.

How hot holding is recorded walks through how it is kept and what comes out.

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