BSHM 55: CHAPTER 1-2 Flashcards
derived from the Latin word SAINTS, meaning “health.”
Sanitation
“the creation and maintenance of hygienic and healthful conditions.”
Sanitation
WHY IS SANITATION IMPORTANT?
- Is a legal requirement
- Helps prevent food poisoning outbreaks
- Helps maintain food quality
- Protects your brand
is the conditions and measures necessary to ensure the safety of
food from production to consumption.
Food Hygiene
is the United Nations agency that connects nations, partners and people to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable - so everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level
of health
World Health Organization (WHO)
FIVE KEY PRINCIPLES OF FOOD HYGIENE ACCORDING TO (WHO)
- Prevent contaminating food with pathogens
- Separate raw and cooked foods to prevent contaminating the cooked foods.
- Cook foods for the appropriate length of time and at the appropriate temperature to kill
pathogens. - Store food at the proper temperature.
- Do use safe water and cooked materials.
refers to limiting the presence of those hazards whether chronic or acute, that may make food injurious to the health of the consumer.
Food Safety
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 mold).
Food Suitability
__________ is the process while ________ is the result
food safety & food suitability
exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food
to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active life. - World Food Summit, Rome, 1996
Food Security
CAUSES OF FOOD INSECURITY
- Drought and other extreme weather event
- Agricultural Problem
- Climate change
- Military conflicts
- Corruption and Political Instability
- Rapid Population Growth
LAWS RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY
- Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
- ISO 22000
- Employees’ Right-to-Know Act
- Presidential Decree 856: Sanitation Code of the Philippines Issued by President Ferdinand Marcos
This is the principal act concerned with protecting the health and safety of employees and members of
the public.
Occupational Safety and Health Act
(OSHA)
is a standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization dealing with food
safety. This is a general derivative of ISO 9000.
ISO 22000
It specifies the necessity of food safety management system for the organizations representing a food chain such that they could validate its ability to control
food safety hazards in order to ensure that food is safe at the time of human consumption.
ISO 22000