Food safety in your language
Free, picture-led flyers that help stop food poisoning. Print them, share them, put them on the wall.
Choose your flyerFour simple steps
Most food poisoning can be stopped at home.
Clean
Wash hands with soap for 20 seconds.
Cook
Cook food until it is steaming hot all the way through.
Chill
Keep your fridge at 5°C or colder.
Keep apart
Keep raw meat covered, at the bottom of the fridge.
Choose your flyer
Pick a level, then your language. Each flyer is one A5 page.
Keep food safe at home
For families and anyone cooking at home. Four steps: clean, cook, chill, keep apart.
Cooking for others
For food banks, community kitchens and volunteers. Temperatures, cleaning, allergens and donated food.
The foods that must be shown on labels and menus in the UK. See the list
The problem
Food poisoning is common and easy to prevent. But the official advice on preventing it is only in English and Welsh.
cases of food poisoning in the UK every year
Food Standards Agency estimatepeople in England and Wales can't speak English well, or at all
Census 2021current UK guides to food safety at home in any other language
Our research, November 2026For organisations
- Free to print. Print as many as you like, in A5 or A4, colour or black and white.
- Need another language? Tell us which languages the people you help speak: hello@cleanhands.org.uk
- Printed packs. Food banks, councils and community groups can ask about printed packs: support@cleanhands.org.uk