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- 1 What are the effects of unsafe food practices?
- 2 What are the possible effects of not performing the proper cleaning and sanitizing practices in the kitchen?
- 3 What are the 3 types of contamination?
- 4 Who is responsible for making sure food is safe?
- 5 What are the risks associated with food handling?
- 6 How are food safety, nutrition and food security related?
What are the effects of unsafe food practices?
Unsafe food creates a vicious cycle of disease and malnutrition, particularly affecting infants, young children, elderly and the sick. Foodborne diseases impede socioeconomic development by straining health care systems, and harming national economies, tourism and trade.
What are the possible effects of not performing the proper cleaning and sanitizing practices in the kitchen?
Poor cleaning and personal hygiene habits/practices can cause food contamination, food poisoning, and spread of infection.
What are the consequences of poor hygiene practices for customers?
poor personal hygiene and cleaning practices that may result in cross-contamination of food and other items. practices inconsistent with organisational food safety program. seeing others using unhygienic work practices. use of broken or malfunctioning equipment.
What are 5 common food safety violations?
The Five Most Common Violations. Perhaps most interesting about the FDA findings is that the same five categories of violations occur most frequently, year after year: inadequate pest control, unintended contamination, lack of hand washing, poor sanitization, and improper temperature.
What are the 3 types of contamination?
The three types of contamination are biological, physical, and chemical. However, for the purpose of this article, we will discuss four categories. These include chemical contamination, physical contamination, microbial contamination, and allergen contamination.
Who is responsible for making sure food is safe?
Who is responsible for food safety within a food business? On the surface, the answer is rather simple: the owner or operator of a food business is responsible for food safety.
What are the consequences of poor food hygiene practices?
The consequences of poor food hygiene practices can be serious, including health repercussions for those who have consumed the produced food, and serious legal action which will be taken against those responsible for conducting poor food hygiene practices.
Why are poor food handling practices in developing countries?
The problem is more noticeable in developing countries due to prevailing poor food handling and sanitation practices, inadequate food safety laws, weak regulatory systems, lack of financial resources to invest on safer equipments, and lack of education for food handlers.
What are the risks associated with food handling?
Many of the risks associated with biological contaminants can be controlled or removed by effective food handling practices, so it is critical that the safe food handling and prevention procedures outline in the rest of the book be followed. Microbes are all around us. They are living things, often too small to be seen without a microscope.
Food safety, nutrition and food security are inextricably linked. Unsafe food creates a vicious cycle of disease and malnutrition, particularly affecting infants, young children, elderly and the sick. Foodborne diseases impede socioeconomic development by straining health care systems, and harming national economies,…