Most of us have had some type of food poisoning bacteria at one stage or another in our adult life. However, we often blame the symptoms as being just a case of diarrhoea, or we sometimes say that we have a ‘24 hour bug’.
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Question:
How to identify food-poisoning bacteria?
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It is this lack of understanding of the symptoms that often confuses people who in turn diagnose their symptoms incorrectly. Instead of realising that they have actually had a dose of food poisoning, it is often blamed on other factors such as catching a virus from a work colleague, being over-tired, or just not feeling well.
For some people, food poisoning can be much more serious and may involve hospitalisation and care by medical professionals and in some cases, it can lead to death.
Foods that have been contaminated by food poisoning bacteria cannot be detected with any of our human body senses. It leaves behind no odour, no flavour and no physical signs of contamination. Then how can one identify if food products contain high levels of food poisoning bacteria?
The simple answer is that there is no way of telling or identifying that foods are potentially dangerous with food poisoning bacteria. But the good news is that there are many precautions that we as food handlers can take in order to prevent the contamination, growth and reproduction of food poisoning micro-organisms.
Most of us have had some type of food poisoning at one stage or another in our adult life.
Food Poisoning
You cannot see it.
You cannot smell it.
You cannot taste it.
There are no warning signs of food poisoning.
In order to keep your food outlet clean and the food you serve safe, it is necessary to put food safety and food hygiene management procedures in place.
Method
Understand and comply with the food safety standards, to ensure the food you are selling is safe for your customers.
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