Food poisoning kills 100s of thousands of people every year. In the USA up to 5,000 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.
Bacteria like listeria are classified as low dosage organisms which means very small numbers can cause illness, sometimes as few as 10 organisms can be enough. And food poisoning cases not only pain and suffering but costs us all money. In the UK, in a recent survey cost the NHS listeria 450M in one year. Campylobacter is a little known organism unlikely but has now become the Was and many other European countries number one cause of foodborne illness.
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 cooked food immediately cool as quickly as possible and put in the fridge.
3. When reheating food always to reheat to 70 c and hold for at least 2 minutes.)
4. Do not buy canned Food contaminated processed/
5. always heat When cooking food to to 70 c 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 raw food 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 handle food have an infection.
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