Food hygiene and safety are essential to prevent the spread of bacteria and illness through food consumption. Proper handling from production to preparation and consumption is needed. Contamination can occur at any stage through bacteria, chemicals, or physical hazards. Key techniques to ensure safety include washing hands and surfaces, avoiding cross-contamination, cooking thoroughly, refrigerating properly, using safe water and raw materials, covering food appropriately, and following package instructions.
Food hygiene and safety are essential to prevent the spread of bacteria and illness through food consumption. Proper handling from production to preparation and consumption is needed. Contamination can occur at any stage through bacteria, chemicals, or physical hazards. Key techniques to ensure safety include washing hands and surfaces, avoiding cross-contamination, cooking thoroughly, refrigerating properly, using safe water and raw materials, covering food appropriately, and following package instructions.
Food hygiene and safety are essential to prevent the spread of bacteria and illness through food consumption. Proper handling from production to preparation and consumption is needed. Contamination can occur at any stage through bacteria, chemicals, or physical hazards. Key techniques to ensure safety include washing hands and surfaces, avoiding cross-contamination, cooking thoroughly, refrigerating properly, using safe water and raw materials, covering food appropriately, and following package instructions.
Food hygiene and safety are essential to prevent the spread of bacteria and illness through food consumption. Proper handling from production to preparation and consumption is needed. Contamination can occur at any stage through bacteria, chemicals, or physical hazards. Key techniques to ensure safety include washing hands and surfaces, avoiding cross-contamination, cooking thoroughly, refrigerating properly, using safe water and raw materials, covering food appropriately, and following package instructions.
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FOOD SAFETY/HYGIENE
Food hygiene is the practice of properly chilling, cooking, cleaning food and avoiding cross- contamination to prevent the spread of bacteria in food. Food safety is essential in protecting individuals from bacteria and parasites that can be passed through food consumption. By practicing safe food handling, illnesses and fatalities can be prevented.
Safe food handling begins at production and continues through the preparation process. If unsafe handling has occurred at any stage, there could be a potential of danger. There have been times when contamination has taken place at production and processing stage, and if contamination occurs during manufacturing, a consumer could inadvertently cook contaminated meat. Ensuring that food is safe for human consumption is likely the most critical part of the food preparation process. This ranges from what is called farm to fork, meaning from the farms all the way to the plate
Contamination of food and feeds arising from naturally occurring toxicants, microbiological contaminants, chemical contaminants such as additives used above the permitted levels, pesticide and veterinary residues in food or as toxic components from food processing could have deleterious effects in humans and animals.
Food handling safety is just as important at the consumer level because many consumers have contaminated food through a lack of awareness.
CAUSES OF FOOD HAZARDS
1. Biological hazards – e.g. bacteria, fungi, viruses
2. Chemical hazards – e.g. pesticides, oil spillage 3. Physical hazards – e.g. jewelry, hair, metals
TECHNIQUES OF FOOD SAFETY
1. Wash hands and surfaces often
hand washing wash utensils rinse fruits and vegetables well 2. Do not cross-contaminate separate foods according to different categories e.g. separate meat, poultry from other foods 3. Cook at and to the right temperature 4. Keep food in refrigerator at right temperature Avoid re-refrigerating food after it has thawed 5. Use safe water and raw materials 6. cover food and cooking utensils appropriately 7. Follow instructions on food labels/ follow directions on the package of commercially prepared food
