Start off the new year with a better understanding of food safety. It is essential to understand what, why, and how foods can make you or your loved ones sick and the food safe principles and procedures to prevent food illnesses.
If it seems foodborne illness outbreaks and food recalls have been increasing – it’s because they have been. A food recall occurs when there is reason to believe that a food may cause consumers to become ill.
Take extra care during the holidays to ensure that people more susceptible to a foodborne illness (e.g., pregnant women, young children, older adults, and people with weakened immune systems) do not get sick.
Avoid high-risk foods, such as raw or undercooked eggs, unpasteurized dairy products, raw fish or shellfish, and undercooked meat and poultry.
Food safety should not only be a food service establishment’s top priority for patron’s health – but it’s also good business!
Foodborne illness (also called foodborne disease and informally referred to as food poisoning) refers to human sickness or disease caused by consuming food or beverages contaminated with harmful biological, chemical, or physical hazards.
To prevent foodborne illness, it is necessary to understand how food becomes unsafe to eat and what proactive measures can be taken to keep food safe.
Recent food illness outbreaks linked to agricultural water have caused industry experts to question why there are not adequate food safety regulations for where irrigation water sources originate or for agricultural runoff.
Currently, growers aren’t required to test their irrigation water for pathogens – such as E. coli. As a result, contaminated water can end up on fruits and vegetables and can contaminate other water sources.
While the American food supply is among the safest in the world, the CDC estimates that there are about 48 million cases of foodborne illness annually – that’s 1 in 6 Americans each year.
To prevent foodborne illness, it is necessary to understand how food becomes unsafe to eat and what proactive measures can be taken to keep food safe.
Food contamination in cereals, corn, peanuts, and tree nuts by aflatoxins is a growing concern for food safety scientists and professionals. Aflatoxins can cause serious illness in humans and animals. The effects of aflatoxin exposure may include liver cancer, reproductive problems, anemia, immune system suppression, food allergies, jaundice, and death.
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