BSHM 55: CHAPTER 1-2 Flashcards
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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
The regulations in this act provide a legal framework for the control of substances hazardous to health.
They apply to all types of business including food businesses.
Employees’ Right-to-Know Act
The code requires all food establishments to secure sanitary permits from the local health office.
Presidential Decree 856: Sanitation Code of the Philippines Issued by President Ferdinand Marcos
It specifies that health certificate will be issued only to a person who has passed the physical and medical
examinations and have been administered immunization.
Presidential Decree 856: Sanitation Code of the Philippines Issued by President Ferdinand Marcos
is the key regulatory agency of the Department of health, with major responsibilities in ensuring safety, efficacy, and quality of food products, drugs, vaccines and biologicals, in vitro, diagnostic reagents, medical devices, cosmetics and household hazardous substances
The Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD)
was created by Republic Act 3720 mandated to enforce an administer in the law, “it is the policy of the state to ensure safe and good quality food, drug and cosmetics and regulate the production, sale and traffic of the same to protect the health of the consumer.
The Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD)
is an emerging discipline which serves as the methodological basis for assessing and managing risks associated with food hazards is still in a developing phase.
Food Safety Risk Analysis
is a biological, chemical or physical agent in, or condition of, food with the potential to cause harm.
Hazard
is an estimate of the probability and severity of the adverse health effects in exposed populations, consequential to hazards in food.
Risk
is widely recognized as the fundamental methodology underlying the development of food safety standards.
Risk Analysis