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The Importance of Food Hygiene

The Importance of Food Hygiene

Food Hygiene, otherwise called Food Safety can be defined as handling, preparing and storing food or drink in the way that best reduces the risk of consumers becoming sick from the food-borne illness. The principles of food safety aim to stop food from turning into contaminated and causing food poisoning.

With this in mind, ensuring that food is safe for human consumption is likely the most important part of the food preparation process. This ranges from what is known as farm to fork, which means from the farms all the way to your plate.

This means that food hygiene is very important at home further as in the restaurant, retail store or food manufacturing plant.

There has become an ever-increasing awareness of food safety by the general public and news agencies are reporting on food recalls and outbreaks much more often.

Reviewing the available statistics, The CDC estimates that every year 48 million individuals get sick from a foodborne illness, 128,000 area unit hospitalised, and 3,000 die from food poisoning.

Food hygiene is important for the following reasons:

  • If food or drink isn't safe to eat, you can not eat or drink. the best example of this is safe drinking water. we'd never drink water that didn't come from a good source. The very same principle applies to food.
  • Every day, individuals worldwide get sick from the food or drink they consume. Bacteria, viruses and parasites found in food can cause illness.
  • There is no immediate approach of telling if food is contaminated because you can't see, taste or smell anything different from the norm.
  • Food poisoning can cause inflammatory disease and dehydration or probably even more serious health problems like kidney disease and death.
  • This risk is very is particularly for those within the high-risk category: little children/ babies, pregnant moms, the aged and immunocompromised, particularly HIV infections and cancer patients.
  • Food hygiene and safety prevent germs from multiplying in foods and reaching dangerous levels.
  • Ensures daily healthy family living.
  • Keeping one healthy and preventing the additional value of buying medication and medical check-ups. this is especially vital is business. companies worldwide loss Billions of dollars each year because of employees downtime.
  • Hand washing accounts from 33rd of all related food poisoning cases. it's therefore vital to keep up sensible personal hygiene practice. this is something we are taught early in our childhood, yet hand washing remains a crucial problem in the kitchen.
Cross-contamination is a major reason behind food poisoning and can transfer bacteria from one food to another (usually raw foods to ready to eat foods).

It is crucial to be aware of however it spreads therefore you'll know how to stop it. good food hygiene is thus essential for food factories to make and sell food that's safe to eat. the first step is for the management and employees to have the information and understand of what food hygiene and food safety is.

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