Can Food Be Dangerous? Learn About Online Food Safety Training

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10/01/2006


Can Food Be Dangerous? Learn About Online Food Safety Training
New website uncovers the not-well-known world of food safety training.

INDIANA, Anyone can learn better food safety with online training, and it probably wouldn't hurt for everyone to check out the basic ways to keep themselves safe from food born illnesses. �Safety Training Programs� http://www.safetytrainingprogram.org is a new website specialized in all kind of safety training. Sharon May, owner of the site says �The people who benefit the most from learning food safety online training are chefs, restaurant owners, and even restaurant servers should be aware of basic food safety. Learning even the basic food safety online , many will be surprised that most contamination of meat and poultry happens during slaughter from contact with small amounts of intestinal contents.� Contamination of fruits and vegetables can be just as bad if the fruits and vegetables are washed or irrigated with water that is contaminated with animal manure or even human sewage. Some types of Salmonella can infect a hen's ovary so that the internal contents of a normal looking egg can be contaminated wit Salmonella even before the shell is formed. Oysters and other filter feeding shellfish can concentrate the Vibrio bacteria that are naturally present in sea water from microbes that are present in human sewage dumped into the sea.

Those who work in restaurants that prep the food for the chef's to cook should definitely learn food safety online before they start handling the food than humans will eat eventually. Food that is contaminated after it reaches the restaurant can be served and eating if handled correctly. Many bacterial microbes need to multiply to a larger number before enough are present in the food to cause disease. Slightly contaminated food that is allowed to sit in warm moist conditions can multiply from one little bacterium into 17 million in less than 12 hours. So lightly contaminated food left out overnight will be contaminated by the next day and highly infectious. Food that is refrigerated promptly stops food contamination from multiplying. When one studies food safety online they will learn that a single hamburger may contain meat from hundreds of animals and a single glass of raw milk can contain milk from hundreds of cows. Raw foods of animal origin are the most likely to be contaminate, raw meat, poultry, eggs, and especially raw shellfish. Just plain washing will decrease contamination but it does not eliminate them much.. Those who work in the restaurant business whether it's fancy dining or fast food, everyone who handles food for others to consume should learn how to handle it properly, from when they receive it off the truck, to when it is put on the plate and served, learning food safety online training will make everyone feel a whole lot safer.

For More Information Contact:

Sharon May
sh_may6@hotmail.com
http://safetytrainingprogram.org/sitemap.html