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Global Handwashing Day<\/h3>\n
Global Handwashing Day<\/a> is observed annually October 15th. Global Handwashing Day is a global advocacy effort dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an easy, effective, and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives. \t\t\t The spread of germs from the hands of food handling and service workers to food is an important cause of foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurants. In fact, it caused 89% of outbreaks in which food was contaminated by food workers. Source: CDC<\/a> [PDF]<\/p>\n Proper handwashing can reduce germs on workers\u2019 hands. It can also reduce the spread of germs from hands to food and from food to other people.<\/p>\n The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advises that hands should be washed as often as necessary and always before<\/strong>:<\/p>\n FDA also advises that hands be washed after<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Proper handwashing can greatly reduce the risk of spreading bacteria. A proper handwashing routine include these 5 steps: Global Handwashing Day is observed annually October 15th. Keeping hands clean is one of the most important steps we can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others.
\nWhether you are at home, at work, traveling, or already sick, find out how good hand hygiene can protect you, your family, and others.<\/p>\n\n
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Credit: The Global Handwashing Partnership (GHP)<\/a><\/span>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\nWashing hands prevents illnesses and spread of infections to others<\/h3>\n
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\n <\/p>\nProper Handwashing for Food Handlers<\/h3>\n
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Image Source: Shutterstock<\/a><\/span>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\nHow often should food workers wash their hands?<\/h3>\n
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Proper Handwashing Steps<\/h3>\n
\n1. Wet hands
\n2. Lather with soap
\n3. Scrub for at least 20 seconds
\n4. Rinse for 10 seconds
\n5. Dry with clean towel<\/p>\n![\"Food](\"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/food_safety_handwashing-1.jpg\")
Credit: Twitter - FDA Food<\/a><\/span>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\nAdditional Handwashing Resources<\/h3>\n
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\nHand washing is essential in preventing contamination of food by food handlers. The spread of germs from the hands of food handling and service workers to food is an important cause of foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcourses.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcourses.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcourses.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcourses.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcourses.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcourses.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcourses.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcourses.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcourses.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcourses.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}