RISK - FOOD SAFETY AND SANITATION

Food ________ is more than just cleanliness. It includes all practices involved in protecting food from risk of contamination, harmful bacteria, poisons and foreign bodies

he word sanitation is derived form the Latin word _________, meaning “health”.

Importance of sanitation

Food _______are the conditions and measures necessary to ensure the safety of food from production to consumption. Lack of adequate food _______can lead to food borne diseases and death of the consumer.

Refers to the limiting the presence of those hazards whether chronic or acute that may make food injurious to the health of the consumer.

Concerned with the intrinsic characteristics of the product, namely taste, smell, texture and presentation, characteristics that can change with the presence of spoilage microbes (bacteria, yeast and mould). Suitability is the assurance that the food is acceptable for human consumption.

Condition related to the availability of food supply to group of people as well as individual’s access to it. It is defined in terms of food availability, food access and food utilization.

Causes of Food security, EXCEPT:

Composite of several criteria determined by the stimuli coming from the food itself and the attitude of values attached by the consumer to the food.

Government office Regulatory Agency in charge with Food Safety