Tag: Level 2 Award In Food Safety in Catering Test

  • Food Safety Part 2

    Food Safety Part 2

    Bacteria are responsible for the highest number of outbreaks.  80% of all food poisoning cases are caused by bacteria. Chemicals such as cleaning products, excess additives and preservatives, fuel fumes, strong after shaves/perfumes, agricultural chemicals, pesticides.  In 1997 aluminium sulphate was inadvertently dumped into a reservoir in Camelford, Cornwall, UK.  Twelve years later many relations…

  • Food Safety Part 1

    Food Safety Part 1

    Eating food kills!  That doesn’t mean by way of overeating and obesity, causing heart attacks, it means by food poisoning.  Food poisoning kills several hundred people in the UK every year and several thousand in the USA.  How can this happen in the 21st century?  Food poisoning and Foodborne disease are more prevalent now than…