--- name: food-safety-temperature-log-analyzer description: "Analyzes food safety temperature log data against HACCP thresholds, flags every out-of-range reading with severity, recommends specific corrective actions, and produces a compliance summary ready for internal review or health inspection. Use when reviewing temperature logs for coolers, freezers, hot-holding, cooking, or cooling steps, diagnosing repeated violations, or preparing a compliance status report." argument-hint: "[log-data] [equipment-type]" allowed-tools: ["Read"] --- # Food Safety Temperature Log Analyzer ## Purpose Turn raw temperature log data into a violation-flagged compliance report — identifying every out-of-range reading, ranking each by food-safety severity, prescribing the exact corrective action, and summarizing overall compliance status so managers catch problems before an inspector does. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user asks to: - Review temperature logs for coolers, freezers, walk-ins, or hot-holding units - Flag out-of-range or missing temperature readings in a log - Diagnose why a unit keeps failing temperature checks - Prepare a temperature compliance summary before a health inspection - Verify cooling or cooking steps met HACCP time/temperature requirements - Build a corrective action list from a week or month of logs ## Inputs Required Before starting, collect: - **Log data**: The readings — as a table, list, or pasted export (include timestamps and unit/location labels if available) - **Equipment/step type**: Cold-holding, freezer, hot-holding, cooking, cooling, or reheating (one or a mix) - **Applicable code standard**: FDA Food Code, local health department, or organization SOP (default: FDA Food Code) - **Reading frequency expected**: How often logs should be recorded (e.g., every 2 hours, per shift) - **Time period covered**: Date range of the logs - **Product context** (optional): What food is stored/prepared in each unit, if known If no code standard is specified, apply the FDA Food Code thresholds below and note the assumption. ## Instructions ### Step 1: Apply the Correct Temperature Thresholds Match each reading to its standard (FDA Food Code defaults): - **Cold-holding**: 41°F (5°C) or below. Anything 42°F+ is out of range. - **Freezer**: 0°F (-18°C) or below recommended; product must remain frozen solid. - **Hot-holding**: 135°F (57°C) or above. Anything 134°F or below is out of range. - **Cooking (final internal temps)**: Poultry 165°F; ground meat 155°F; whole cuts/fish 145°F; eggs to order 145°F. Flag any reading below the required minimum for that product. - **Cooling**: 135°F → 70°F within 2 hours, then 70°F → 41°F within an additional 4 hours (6 hours total). Flag any cooling record that breaches either window. - **Reheating**: 165°F within 2 hours. - **Danger zone**: 41°F–135°F. Time spent here is cumulative and matters for cooling/cold-holding failures. ### Step 2: Flag Every Reading Classify each log entry: - **In range** — meets threshold - **Out of range** — breaches threshold (report actual vs. required) - **Missing** — a scheduled reading has no entry (a documentation violation even if temps were fine) - **Suspect** — physically implausible or duplicated values suggesting the log was backfilled rather than measured live ### Step 3: Assign Severity to Each Violation - **Critical**: Reading in the danger zone with likely time-temperature abuse (e.g., cold-holding at 50°F, or cooling that missed the 2-hour mark). Product safety compromised — likely discard. - **Major**: Out of range but marginal or short-duration, or a repeated pattern on one unit signaling equipment failure. - **Minor**: Missing or late entries, or readings 1–2°F over threshold on a single occasion. ### Step 4: Prescribe Corrective Actions For each flagged reading or pattern, give a specific action — not "monitor more closely": - Cold-holding breach → check product temp with calibrated thermometer; discard TCS food held above 41°F beyond 4 cumulative hours; service the unit if internal temp is failing. - Hot-holding breach → reheat to 165°F within 2 hours or discard; verify unit is set correctly. - Cooling failure → discard product that missed a window; retrain on ice-bath/shallow-pan methods; log corrective in the temperature record. - Recurring unit failure → escalate to equipment repair; move product to a working unit; increase check frequency until resolved. - Missing/late entries → identify accountable shift; retrain on logging cadence; consider a reminder system. ### Step 5: Identify Patterns Look across the full period for: - A single unit failing repeatedly (equipment problem, not human error) - Failures clustered at specific times (shift change, delivery, defrost cycle) - Systematic missing entries on certain shifts or days - Signs of backfilled logs (identical values, round numbers, timestamps out of sequence) ### Step 6: Summarize Compliance Status Produce an overall status: **Compliant / Compliant with Corrections Needed / Non-Compliant**, with the counts and the top risks driving the rating. ## Output Format - **Structure**: Compliance summary header → violation table → severity-ranked corrective actions → pattern findings → inspection-readiness note - **Length**: 500–900 words depending on log volume - **Format**: A violation table (reading, unit, timestamp, actual vs. required, status, severity), plus prose sections for patterns and summary - **Sections**: Overall Compliance Status → Flagged Readings Table → Corrective Actions (ranked Critical → Major → Minor) → Patterns & Root Causes → Inspection Readiness - **Tone**: Compliance officer — precise, non-alarmist, action-first; cites the specific threshold each violation breached ## Quality Checklist Before delivering output, verify: - [ ] Every reading is classified (in range / out of range / missing / suspect) — none skipped - [ ] Each out-of-range reading shows actual value vs. required threshold - [ ] Every violation has an assigned severity (Critical / Major / Minor) - [ ] Each corrective action is specific and executable — no "monitor more closely" - [ ] Missing/skipped scheduled readings are flagged as violations, not ignored - [ ] The report ends with a single clear compliance status and the count of critical violations ## Notes - Missing documentation is itself a violation — an inspector treats a blank log the same as a failed reading. - Cooling failures are the most commonly missed on manual review because they require checking two time windows, not one temperature — always verify both the 2-hour and 4-hour marks. - If timestamps are absent, note that time-based standards (cooling, danger-zone duration) cannot be fully verified, and recommend adding timestamps to future logs. - Recurring failures on one unit are almost always equipment, not staff — recommend a service check before retraining. --- ## How to use this skill This file is a Claude Code skill in [Anthropic's standard format](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) — markdown with YAML frontmatter at the top. **Installing in Claude Code:** - `~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads in every session anywhere on your machine (recommended for skills you'll use across multiple projects) - `/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads only when working in that project (recommended for project-specific skills) Restart Claude Code or open a new session to register. **Using in Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools:** 1. 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