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Food Safety & Quality Practices (Hardcover)
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Food Safety & Quality Practices (Hardcover)
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Food plays as one of the indispensable part of people's life. Food
is an essential prerequisite for life and as such the primary goal
of eating and drinking is to enable the body to function normally.
Access to good quality food has been man's endeavor from the
earliest of human existence. We always look forward to the quality
of food to assure its safety as its basic requirement. "Food
safety" implies absence or acceptable and safe levels of
contaminants, adulterants, naturally occurring toxins or any other
substance that may make food injurious to health on an acute or
chronic basis. Food safety is about handling, storing and preparing
food to prevent infection and help to make sure that our food keeps
enough nutrients for us to have a healthy diet. Unsafe food and
water means that it has been exposed to dirt and germs, or may even
be rotten, which can cause infections or diseases such as
diarrhoea, meningitis, etc. These diseases can make people very
sick or even be life threatening. When people are sick, they are
weak and would have difficulty working or concentrating at school.
Some of these infections also make it difficult for our bodies to
absorb the nutrients they need to get healthy. Unsafe or stale
foods also deteriorate and be of poor quality, which means they
lose nutrients and so we do not get enough of what we need for a
healthy diet. So unsafe food can also lead to poor nutrition.
Foodborne illnesses are a burden on public health and contribute
significantly to the cost of health care. A small percentage of
these illnesses are the result of identified foodborne outbreaks,
which happen when two or more cases of similar illnesses result
from eating the same food. Investigations of foodborne outbreaks,
along with analyses of data on the germs that make us sick and
behaviors that contribute to food contamination, help us identify
where we can make improvements in the country's food safety system.
This system spans from growing the food on the farm through
processing, packing, distribution, transportation, and storage, to
preparing it to be eaten. Clean and safe food are very important to
prevent germs from getting into foods and water. Such germs not
only cause diseases, but they also destroy valuable nutrients in
the food.
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