Wash fruits and veggies thoroughly under running water before cooking and eating.Wash hands with soap and water before cooking and while handling food as microorganisms are easily transferred from hands to food during meal preparation and consumption.Keep a clean and sanitized kitchen - Use clean utensils and disinfect surfaces like kitchen slab and cleaning materials like scrubs and sinks.Here’s A Quick And Easy Recipe For Rice Idli With A Secret Ingredient To Make Fluffy And Soft Idlisĭr Pasi discusses some important tips to keep your food safe at home: Most importantly poor handling of food, not maintaining hygiene of cooking space, storage space and personal hygiene.Presence of contaminants in grains like stones, grit.Microbiological action like mold on the bread or souring of milk.Action of insects can damage and contaminate grains.Chemical reactions – rancidity in fats, hydrogen swell.

Refrigerator / freezer not working properly.Not refrigerating or freezing foods as per the need.Meghana Pasi, Nutrition Consultant, MyThali Program, Arogya World shares the causes of food spoilage. “Food Standards Save Lives” is announced as this year’s theme for the World Food Safety Day by the FAO which is celebrated every year on 7 th June.ĭr. Further, foodborne illnesses are more prevalent amongst the vulnerable group (the elderly, children under five and poor populations).

Unsafe food has adverse effects on health and well-being as well as negative economic consequences for families and businesses also. Globally one out of ten people fall ill from eating contaminated food every year. Food Safety aims to prevent the contamination of food and reduce the risk of foodborne diseases. Food safety needs to be checked at every point from harvest to transport to processing to storage and finally during food preparation and storage by the consumers.

What does food safety mean to you - is it the same as eating healthy or is it more than that? Food Safety goes beyond healthy eating which requires you to monitor what you consume.įor food to be healthy, it also must be safe to eat.

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