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14 maj 2024 · As an important part of food safety and ensuring the health and well-being of consumers, food hygiene is the practice of handling, preparing, and storing food in a way that prevents foodborne illnesses. Also, it’s a set of guidelines designed to keep food safe from contamination and spoilage.
This document provides a code of practice for food hygiene based on the Codex Alimentarius Commission. It defines food hygiene as the conditions and practices that keep food safe and suitable for consumption.
4 paź 2024 · Access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food is key to sustaining life and promoting good health. Unsafe food containing harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances causes more than 200 diseases, ranging from diarrhoea to cancers.
Food hygiene is defined as ‘the measures and conditions necessary to control hazards and to ensure fitness for human consumption of a foodstuff taking into account its intended use’. From: Hygienic Design of Food Factories, 2011
Food safety (or food hygiene) is used as a scientific method/discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. The occurrence of two or more cases of a similar illness resulting from the ingestion of a common food is known as a food-borne disease outbreak. [1] .
1 sty 2016 · The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), the international body which sets standards for foods, defines food hygiene as “all conditions and measures necessary to ensure the safety and suitability of food at all stages of the food chain.”
Consumers should have enough knowledge of food hygiene to enable them to: - understand the importance of product information; - make informed choices appropriate to the individual; and - prevent contamination and growth or survival of foodborne pathogens by storing, preparing and using it correctly.
