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What practices might lead to food contamination in a workplace?
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By not practicing High Standards of personal hygiene.
Food Handling areas, equipment and surfaces are not thoroughly cleaned, sanitized and maintained.
Not ensuring protection and safety while handling food.
Lack of training on Food Safety Standards/Programs
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What practices might lead to contamination in a workplace?
By not practicing High Standards of personal hygiene. Food Handling areas, equipment and surfaces are not thoroughly cleaned, sanitized and maintained. Not ensuring protection and safety while handling food. Lack of training on Food Safety Standards/Programs
What practices might lead to food contamination in your workplace?
use the same spoon for 2 different things use gloves for 2 different things not wash your hands cough on food sneeze on food touch your face touch your hair scratch your body touch raw things use the restroom and not wash your hands
What does food contamination mean?
spoiled food
How do mesophiles get into food?
Bacteria are everywhere, so they might be indigenous to the food or may have been carried to the food via some route of contamination.
An example of cross-contamination would be when food come into contact with?
An example of cross contamination is putting raw chicken on a plate and then putting the cooked chicken on the same plate, because then the cooked chicken is then contaminated. Another example is not washing your hands after touching raw chicken and then touching other food.
What do you do if you see a potential hygiene risk in your workplace?
Follow hygiene procedures and identify hygiene hazardsReport any personal health issuesPrevent food and other item contaminationPrevent cross-contamination by washing hands
What food contamination's is usually associated with undercooked chicken?
Salmonella is the food contamination usually associated with undercooked chicken
Cross - contamination?
When bacteria from one food items gets onto another food item it is called cross-contamination.
What are safe and sanitary practices in the use care and storage of food and equipment?
Some, but not all kinds of food have to be refrigerated. Food has to be stored in clean, preferably sterile conditions to avoid the growth of bacteria, mold, etc. Food has to be protected from insects, rodents, or anything else that might want to eat it before it gets to the people for whom it is intended. Food must be free of contamination, so don't allow anything to get into it, not even dust.
What is the function of gloves in food processing?
Prevent contamination of the food.
What is a food born disease?
disease transmitted by contamination of food
What pollutes food?
If you are referring to how food becomes contaminated then there are three types of contamination and two ways in which it can occur. The 3 types of ways food can be contaminated is by Physical Contaminants: Chemical Contaminants: Contamination of food through a chemical based product such as bleach Biological Contaminants: Contamination from microorganisms such as, yeast, parasites, viruses, bacteria and mold The 2 ways in which food can be contaminated is through Direct Contamination: contamination of food from the original place it was produced, ie. salmonella on chicken, Cross-Contamination: when food is contaminated from one food to another through a non-food object. Ie Apple is contaminated because you did not wash your hands( non food object) after cutting raw chicken.
