Food safety is essential to prevent the spread of illness and disease. Proper food handling practices can reduce the risk of food contamination, which can lead to foodborne illness. In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the best practices for food safe handling.
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Top 10 Improper Food Handling Practices That Cause Foodborne Illness:
Top 10 improper food handling practices that cause foodborne illness:
- Improper cooling 30 per cent
- Advance preparation 17 per cent
- Infected person 13 per cent
- Inadequate reheating for hot holding 11 per cent
- Improper hot holding 9 per cent
- Contaminated raw food or ingredient 5 per cent
- Unsafe source 4 per cent
- Use of leftovers 3 per cent
- Cross-contamination 3 per cent
- Inadequate cooking 2 per cent
Dr. Frank Bryan, Journal of Food Protection, 1988
Food Safety Tips during Grocery Shopping
Food safety is an important issue for everyone including parents, cooks and chefs. We want to make sure you are cooking your food safely so it doesn’t hurt anyone, including yourself. Food poisoning has serious consequences that can last long after the initial illness. It’s worth making sure you’re doing it right!
This blog post will cover some of the most common mistakes people make when buying food at the grocery. There are many different types of bacteria that can get into your food if you aren’t careful, which is why we’ll go over a few things you should be paying attention to while shopping at the grocery before preparing food at home.
How to check if your food is cooked
- Insert the clean and calibrated meat thermometer probe into the thickest part of the meat or food
- Wait for a few minutes until the reading stops at the current temperature.
- Continue cooking until you reach the desired temperature based on the table below.
- Remove the probe and clean the thermometer.
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