Food Safety Introduction Welcome

Food Safety Introduction Welcome

Safe food is food witch is free of contamination and will not course illness or harm.

Persons involved in food poisoning investigations often remark about the cleanliness of the premises responsible. If food hygiene is Intended to ensure the safety of food and prevent food poisoning then it follows that hygiene is more than cleanliness: it involves all measures necessary to ensure the safety and wholesomeness of food during preparation, processing, manufacture, storage, transportation, distribution, handling, sale and supply.

This involves:

• Protecting food from risk of contamination, i.e. preventing objectionable matter getting into food, including harmful bacteria, poisons the foreign bodies;
• preventing any bacteria present multiplying to a level which would result in illness of consumers or early spoilage of food;
• destroying any harmful bacteria in the food by through cooking, processing or irradiation; and
• discarding unfit or contaminated food.