Every day, we enjoyed the food served, both at home and in restaurants. Every year, it could be that we have been eating more than 1000 times. Food is an essential part of everyone's lives. However, if the food we having been really safe? It could be our food containing less harmful substances. How do I make sure that the food we having been really safe?
Secure is Our food Great?
Often, many of us ignore the dangers of the food eaten. However, every year, many people suffer from the disease because the food they eat. In the countries that have high hygiene standards, each year an average of 10 to 15 percent of its population infected by diseases brought in by their fine food.
Some of the things that make the food unsafe when consumed:
Contaminated bacteria
Dozens of bacteria, viruses, Protozoan parasites, and threatened to poison food. Contaminated food could be harmful bacteria. For example the food stored in the jar or container which is not closed the meeting. Raw vegetable salad or vegetables, such as doesn't washed first. Other causes, the meat is left at room temperature for some time even though it's been cooked can invite bacteria.
The processing of which does not clean
If food processing is done in a fast, hygienic factors are less likely to be noticed. It could be a container for cutting raw meat and cooked meat is done in the same cutting boards.
Eating out
While eating out is interesting, but should remain cautious. Some restaurants do not keep clean the kitchen so the becomes a hotbed of seedling diseases. Or some restaurant food on the table for a long time without being stored in a refrigerator or a dense storage containers. Or is often the case, yesterday's leftovers served the next day.
Chemicals or drugs
Some chemical substances or drugs given to livestock or plants. For example, some animals are given antibiotics to be immune to the disease, or hormones that cattle grow faster. Bacteria-bacteria in livestock became more immune, so that when consumed human germ-germ causes the disease in humans normally will be immune to antibiotics.
Likewise with pesticide on crops. Food can be contaminated by the remnants of pesticides or hazardous substances or toxic.
Making food safe
Food-related diseases are caused by bacteria. Usually the bacteria could have impeded its growth.To make the food becomes more secure, then the food must be cultivated in conditions that do not allow the growth of bacteria in food or spreading materials polluters in the kitchen. Here's some practical advice that you can do to avoid illness or danger of food is often the case.
Wash your hands
This is the most practical method, i.e. washing hands before eating. Always wash your hands with SOAP or cleaning the septic with anti-every time You will eat or touch the food.
Wash and clean Cookware
Always wash all cooking utensils such as cutting boards, knives, kitchen table, grated with SOAP and hot water could also prepare each dish after. It is more important if after the processing of beef, chicken, or seafood are still raw with the equipment.
Wash the fruit and vegetable
Although the fruit and vegetables can be eaten directly, but always wash fruits and vegetables with warm water to clean it from insects and residual pesticides. If fruits and vegetables do not need to be peeled to be eaten raw or cooked, without brush this food materials with vegetable brush to remove dirt and residue of pesticides that are attached to. Leafy vegetables such as spinach, Ipomoea aquatica, and slada, should be washed clean and certainly not containing sand and soil.Even the best move is to skinning, shelling, and boiling so that the cleaning of foodstuffs. For example, when you cultivate lettuce and cabbage, cast the most out of the leaf.
Cook bacon until cooked
Cook all types of meats to mature properly. These include meat fish and chicken with the aim to kill harmful organisms. Beef and frozen chicken from the freezer to be thawed completely before being cooked, so the heat can penetrate to the core.
In the flesh there can include tapeworms in fish and shellfish. Tapeworm regular attack the liver or lungs. Panasi the inside of the meat to more than 70-80 degrees Celsius, though briefly, almost all bacteria, viruses, and parasites will die. If you want to heat the food should be done until the temperature of 75 degrees Celsius or until the food gets hot and emit steam.
For example, avoid eating chicken meat that are part of it is still pink or eggs that are not cooked properly. Due to the high risk of dangerous organism still contains such as bacteria, viruses and parasites.
Separate groceries
Separate layout of foodstuffs while carrying or keeping it. Separate meat and seafood from other foods. For example, separate your shopping plastic bags between meat with other food ingredients, especially when storing in the refrigerator.
Avoid putting the food on the plate is ripe that were previously used to spot dag
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