How does food safety affect young people?

Answer 1

People of any age can be negatively affected by improper handling or storage of foods, especially pre-made food items. Babies and young toddlers, like the elderly, can be impacted severely by tainted foods. Recently in Ohio, the State fined a trucking company because they did not have working freezers to keep the load of refrigerated foods cold enough. Bacteria can rapidly multiply when foods meant to be cold get too warm, or conversely, when hot foods are left out too long to cool.

Even produce can be contaminated with E-Coli from improper hand washing. This leads to digestive illness than can land people in hospitals. All fresh produce should be washed, or washed and cooked, before eating.

Food preparation requires safety rules too. A counter contaminated with bacteria can cross-contaminate to other foods.