ARTICLE 1
The Importance Of Food Hygiene – What To Consider When Making Food
Proper hygiene is very important when it comes to food preparation. Without washing hands and kitchen tools, diseases may easily spread. In some places though, this crucial matter is not always known and is unfortunately taken lightly. Since cross-contamination is a major cause of food poisoning and can transfer bacteria from one food item to other foods, it is crucial to be aware of how it spreads so you will know how to prevent it.
Food poisoning spreads when one food, mainly raw food, comes in contact with other types of food. Bacteria can also be transferred indirectly, for example from hands, tools, surfaces, knives, and clothes. One thing you can do to prevent cross contamination is keep separate chopping boards for raw and cooked foods.
Refrigerators must also be checked regularly to guarantee that they are running at the proper temperature and they should also be cleaned, both inside and out.
ARTICLE 2
Good food hygiene helps you to:
Obey the law
Reduce the risk of food poisoning among your customers
Protect your business's reputation
Good food hygiene is all about controlling harmful bacteria, which can cause serious illness.
The four main things to remember for good hygiene are:
Cross-contamination
Cleaning
Chilling
Cooking
These are known as the 4 Cs. They will help you prevent the most common food safety problems.
Cross-contamination
Cross-contamination is when bacteria are spread between food, surfaces or equipment. It is most likely to happen when raw food touches (or drips onto) ready-to-eat food, equipment or surfaces.
Cross-contamination is one of the most common causes of food poisoning. Do the following things to avoid it:
Clean and disinfect work surfaces, chopping boards and equipment thoroughly before you start preparing food and after you have used them to prepare raw food.
Use different equipment (including chopping boards and knives) for raw meat/poultry and ready-to-eat food unless they can be heat disinfected in, for example, a commercial dishwasher.
Wash your hands before preparing food.
Wash your hands thoroughly after touching raw food.
Keep raw and ready-to-eat food apart at all times, including packaging material for ready-to-eat food.
Store raw food below ready-to-eat food in the fridge. If possible, use separate fridges for raw and ready-to-eat food.
Provide separate working areas, storage facilities, clothing and staff for the handling of ready-to-eat food.
Use separate machinery and equipment, such as vacuum packing machines, slicers and mincers, for raw and ready-to-eat food.
Separate cleaning materials, including cloths, sponges and mops, should be used in areas where ready-to-eat foods are stored, handled and prepared.
Make sure that your staff know how to avoid cross-contamination.
Cleaning
Effective cleaning gets rid of bacteria on hands, equipment and surfaces. So it helps to stop harmful bacteria from spreading onto food. You should do the following things:
Make sure that all your staff wash and dry their hands thoroughly before handling food.
Clean and disinfect food areas and equipment between different tasks, especially after handling raw food.
Clear and clean as you go. Clear away used equipment, spilt food etc. as you work and clean work surfaces thoroughly.
Use cleaning and disinfection products that are suitable for the job, and follow the manufacturer’s instructions.
Disinfection products should meet BS EN standards. Check product labels for either of these codes: BS EN 1276 or BS EN 13697.
Do not let food waste build up.
Chilling
Chilling food properly helps to stop harmful bacteria from growing. Some food needs to be kept chilled to keep it safe, for example food with a ‘use by’ date, cooked dishes and other ready-to-eat food such as prepared salads and desserts. It is very important not to leave these types of food standing around at room temperature. So, make sure you do the following things:
Check chilled food on delivery to make sure it is cold enough.
Put food that needs to be kept chilled in the fridge straight away.
Cool cooked food as quickly as possible and then put it in the fridge.
Keep chilled food out of the fridge for the shortest time possible during preparation.
Check regularly that your fridge and display units are cold enough.
Cooking
Thorough cooking kills harmful bacteria in food. So it is extremely important to make sure that food is cooked properly. When cooking or reheating food, always check that it is steaming hot all the way through.
It is especially important to make sure that you thoroughly cook poultry, pork, rolled joints and products made from minced meat, such as burgers and sausages. This is because there could be bacteria in the middle of these types of products. They should not be served pink or rare and should be steaming hot all the way through. Whole cuts of beef and lamb, such as steaks, cutlets and whole joints, can be served pink/rare as long as they are fully sealed on the outside.
Hygiene rules
Food handlers: fitness to work
Guidance to help managers and staff prevent the spread of infection by advising which illnesses and symptoms staff should report and what managers should do in response.
Water supply
Rules on keeping your water supply safe.
Food waste guidance for business
Rules on food waste, including waste cooking oil.
Shelf life and storage of food
Shelf life of ready-to-eat food, temperature controls and vacuum packed chilled foods guidance.
TASK
In the comment section indicate using 5 sentences why food hygiene is important.
Hygiene is important because it helps prevent disease from spreading easily so it very important and also teaches us to wash our hand and the kitchen tools to so that no bacteria can be spread.
ReplyDeleteThis is only 1 sentence. Where are the other 4 sentences? Ans whose work is this?
DeleteFood safety and food hygiene are important as they ensure that the food you handle and produce is safe for consumption. If food safety and hygiene are not maintained, consumers could become seriously ill with food poisoning and foodborne illnesses. Therefore, food safety and food hygiene are of the utmost importance to protect the health of consumers.
ReplyDeleteNaomi Golding
DeleteProper hygiene is very important when it comes to food preparation.
ReplyDelete1. Without washing hands and kitchen tools, diseases can spread easily.
2. Chilling food properly helps to stop harmful bacteria from growing.
3. It is extremely important to make sure food is properly cooked, food such has poultry, pork and rolled joints.
4. One thing you can do to prevent cross contamination is to keep separate chopping board for raw and cooked foods.
5. Refrigerators must be checked regularly to guarantee they are running at a proper temperature and should be cleaned both inside and out.
Samantha Grant
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ReplyDeleteShantol Thomas- when it comes on to food, proper hygiene is very important. It is important that whoever is preparing the food must be clean themselves because bacteria can spread directly from the hands or the clothes. Cleaning the tools, surface and the food effectively that is in process to be cooked can help to eliminate harmful bacteria from spreading into the food. Freezing food is another way the practice proper food hygiene. Foods that are used by date can't leave open at any room temperature so, so it's best to cool the food properly and store in the fridge to prevent bacteria.
ReplyDeleteGood Job. Remember to begin each new sentence with a capital letter.
DeleteFood hygiene is important because it help prevent food from getting bacteria by washing each utensil after each use so no bacteria spread from one object to the next.
ReplyDeleteFood hygiene is important for the following reasons:
ReplyDeleteIf food or drink is not safe to eat, you cannot eat or drink. The easiest example of this is safe drinking water. We would never drink water that did not come from a reputable source. The very same principle applies to food.
Every day, people worldwide get sick from the food or drink they consume. Bacteria, viruses and parasites found in food can cause food poisoning.
There is no immediate way of telling if food is contaminated because you cannot see, taste or smell anything different from the norm.
Very good summary. Next time attach your name.
DeleteHand washing accounts from 33% of all related food poisoning cases. It is therefore important to maintain good personal hygiene practice.
ReplyDeleteKeeping one healthy and preventing the additional cost of buying medication and medical check-ups.
ReplyDeleteproper hygiene is very important when it come to food preparation .1.cross-cntamination is when bacteria are spread between food.2.effective cleaning gets rid of bacteria on hands, equipment and surfaces. chilling food properly help to stop harmful bacteria from growing. thorough cooking kills harmful bacteria in food.
ReplyDeleteGood. Remember to begin each sentence with a capital letter.
DeleteRenee Neufville
ReplyDeleteFood hygiene is important because:
1. Without washing hands and kitchen tools, diseases may spread easily.
2. It is important to make sure that you thoroughly cook poultra, pork, rolled joints, and prouducts made from minced.
3. Chilling food properly helps to stop harmful bacteria.
4. Effective cleaning gets rid of bacteria in hands, equipment and surfaces.
5. Refrigerator must also be checked regularly to guarantee that they are running at the proper temperature and they should be cleaned both inside out.
Awesome work Renee
DeleteFood hygiene is important as you will practice the right way of handling and preparing foods.
ReplyDeleteIt helps you to prepare foods safe for consumption.
It reduce the risk of food poising.
It prevents cross contamination.
Good food hygiene helps control harmful bacteria, which can cause food borne illnesses.
Well done Ken.
DeleteKephri Bolton
ReplyDeleteFood hygiene: Proper hygiene is very important when it comes to food preparation. Without washing hands and kitchen tools, diseases may easily spread. Good food hygiene helps you to obey the law, Reduce the risk of food poisoning among your customers, and can controlling harmful bacteria, which can cause serious illness. There are four main things to remember of good food hygiene: Cross-contamination
Cleaning
Chilling
Cooking.
They will help you prevent the most common food safety problems.
Russell:
ReplyDeleteProper hygiene is very important, food hygiene even more so because it goes into your body.
One should not only ensure that their food is clean but their utensils and cooking surroundings as well so as to prevent diseases which can be contracted through cross contamination.
Cross contamination occurs when bacteria from meat comes into contact with other types of food and is one of the most common causes of food poisoning.
To prevent this one should ensure that the area, hands and tools used to handle raw meat are properly cleansed.
Chilling and cooking food at certain temperatures helps to kill or prevent harmful bacteria from multiplying.
Good work Russell. I am glad you got your work done.
DeleteNadine Lloyd
ReplyDeleteFood hygiene prevent germs from multiplying in foods and reaching dangerous lebels. Ensures daily healthy family living keeping one healthy and preventing the addiyional cost of buying mefication and meficals check ups.
Crystal Gayle Moodie.
ReplyDeleteFood hygiene and their importance:
A. Helps to prevent diseases that are harmful for those who intake the finished product.
B. This reduces bacteria built up
C. By practicing food hygiene you will prevent cross-contamination you won't have raw food mixing with cooked food or vegetables.
D. You will keep equipments and tools clean tidy and organize inside and out.
E. You will have customers continuously coming back and your clientele will grow, because no one will be getting food poisoning nor been sick from food that are served at your establishment.
Tracey Ann Morrison
ReplyDeleteThe importance of food hygiene.
Proper hygiene is important when it comes to food preparation without washing hands and kitchen tools diseases may easily spread.Food poisoning spread when mainly new food comes in contact with other foods it is crucial to know how it is spread so we can know how to prevent it, refrigerators must be checked regularly to ensure that they are running at the proper temperature,also to be cleaned both inside and outside.Cross contamination bis one of the most common cause of food poisoning to prevent cross contamination we should clean and disinfect work surfaces, chopping boards and equipments before and after preparing foods.
Corrine Frazer: when we practice good food hygiene we are obeying the law. 2: Good food hygiene is important as it reduces the risk of food poisoning.3: The practice of good food hygiene helps us in the protection of our business and organisations reputation.4: good food hygiene is important because it helps us in the prevention of infections. 5:We should ensure that we keep our tools, and equipment clean in order to assist in good food hygiene practices
ReplyDeleteChevanee Dixon
ReplyDeleteThe main thing to be considered when preparing food is proper hygiene is important and to wash hands and tools when preparing a meal.Bacteria can also be transferred indirectly,from one food “raw food” to other types of food,They are 4c’s that will help prevent the most common food safety problems:
cleaning-you should clean hands,equipments and surfaces before handling food this helps to stop harmful baterias from spreading on food.
Cooking-make sure your food is cooked properly to prevent harmful bacteria’s in food. Chilling-keeping your food on the refrigerator helps to stop harmful bacteria from growing . Cross-Contamination- this is most likely to happen when raw food touches ready to eat food,equipment or surface.
Tashaura Haughton
ReplyDeletewhen you are preparing a meal; proper hygiene is very important. Bacteria can be spread by not washing hands or kitchen tools. Cross contamination is a major cause of food poisoning and can transfer bacteria from one food item to other food (mainly raw foods). to keep up good hygiene there are 4 four things to be considered:
1. Cross Contamination
2. Cleaning
3. Chilling
4. Cooking
Always remember to clean hands, equipment and surface; doing this helps to kill harmful bacteria from spreading.
Why is food hygiene important?
ReplyDeleteFood Hygiene is important because being knowledgeable of it helps us to understand how to protect ourselves and others from the spread of germs and bacteria during and after food preparation.
We learn that cross-contamination occurs when bacteria are spread between food, surfaces and or equipment especially when raw food touches (or drips onto) ready-to-eat food. Cross-contamination is one of the main source of food poisoning.
It is important to properly store raw foods versus cooked food in chillers at an appropriate temperature to prevent a built up of harmful bacteria.
Therefore refrigerators must be checked regularly to ensure that they are working at the correct temperature.
It is also important to ensure that foods are properly cooked at high temperature thoroughly to also destroy harmful bacteria.
Yanique Pusey
ReplyDeleteFood Hygiene is important as it helps to:
1. Prevent cross-contamination; when you keep food out of reach of touching other foods, so you package raw food separates from food ready to eat so you dont cause food poisoning.
2. It is important also when you put it into practice because this helps you to wash your hands before and after food preparation and cleaning of food surfaces, and equipments and clothing after cutting or chopping any food you disinfect properly or change equipment when you are handling different things so that you reduce the risk of causing any illnesses to persons.
3.Food Hygiene is helps you keep chilled food in it's right storage and not left in room temperature to prevent bacteria.
4. You must cook food thoroughly so that bacteria in foods when hot heated it kills the bacteria.
5. Good food hygiene also protect you and your customers so your reputation is secured.
Hygiene is important. Washing hand and kitchen tools will control harmful bacteria that may cause serious illness. Cleaning gets rid of bacteria on hands,equipment and surfaces and stop bacteria from spreading into the food. Good hygiene can help to maintain food from cross contamination and the main causes of food poisoning. Chilling food properly help to stop bacteria from growing. Cooking kills harmful bacteria in the food so always make sure that food is cooked properly.
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