Food Safety Practices for Catering Employees

Authors

  • Adhip DESWAL  Resource Person, IHTM, MDU, India

Keywords:

Food Safety, Food Hygiene, Hazards, FSSA

Abstract

Food safety and quality issues have turned out to be most successive in India and different nations. Studies have demonstrated that with increasing awareness among customer today demand safe food. Food safety and Standard Act is one law guaranteeing that all the food provided to purchaser is safe. Nourishment cooking Food catering ventures need to adhere to food safety measures to guarantee safe food to buyers. Safe steps in food handling, cooking, and capacity are fundamental to prevent foodborne disease. You can't see, smell, or taste hurtful microorganisms that may cause disease. The studies in past have demonstrated the presence of hurtful synthetic compounds and pathogens in the different food things particularly street food. However, there is a striking scarcity of reliable data in quality assessment and food safety looks into in catering organization are few in India. More research should be done in providing catering organization to get an unmistakable picture about food safety in these organizations. This research is done to study the food safety adherence to food hygiene and safety practices by food catering employees and the various hazards identified that cause illness.

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Adhip DESWAL, " Food Safety Practices for Catering Employees, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Volume 2, Issue 6 , pp.568-577, November-December-2016.