Top Ten Tips to Avoid Food Poisoning.
Posted: Thursday, November 11, 2010
by Stephen Vaughan
All Food Hygiene
Food poisoning kills 100s of thousands of people every year. In the USA up to 5000 people die each year, in the UK up to 400. The numbers are similar in other developed countries but the number in Asia and Africa and South America are far higher.
One of the world's worst out breaks was when a manufacturing company made a manufacturing error causing 18,000 customers to be made ill. Other outbreaks in developed countries have resulted in 19 customers dying from listeria food poisoning.
The following guide identifies the top ten things that go wrong. By following this simple guide we can make ourselves and more importantly our customers safer and avoid food poisoning.
Top 10 Tips to Prevent Food Poisoning.
1. Do not prepare food too far in advance or storage at ambient temperature.
2. If not eating immediately cool cooked food as quickly as possible and put in the fridge.
3. When reheating food always reheat to 70C and hold for at least 2 minutes.
4. Do not buy contaminated processed/canned Food
5. When cooking food always heat to 70C and hold for at least 2 minutes.
6. Where food needs to be thawed out prior to cooking make sure it is fully thawed all the way through.
7. Avoid cross-contamination
8. Do not eat food raw if it should be cooked avoid sushi.
9. If food is going to be kept warm check it is above 63C or consumed within one hour of cooking.
10. Do not let people who have an infection handle food.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Never heard of listeria--good tips--thanks
Never heard of listeria--good tips--thanks
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