Food Safety Priorities

Guaranteeing that food consumed is the highest quality and has been handled in the safest way is a priority no matter where your operation is located.  Today we know that most foodborne illnesses come from the food service worker.  It is a great responsibility, assuring the quality and safety of the food served to customers.

Quality in Process trains employees to understand the transmission of foodborne illnesses and the illnesses that are of the utmost concern in the food industry.

Below shows charts to help you visualize the importance of good personal hygiene in the food industry and not working while sick:

Hand washing is critical because an incredibly small amount of Noro virus particles can lead to foodborne illness.

Just imagine, it only takes:

10 to 100

viral particles to make someone ill.

Now, visualize:

10,000,000

viral particles can be in one gram of feces.

30,000,000

Viral particles can come from one projectile vomiting incident;
it’s aerosolized.

 

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Guaranteeing that food consumed is the highest quality and has been handled in the safest way is a priority no matter where your operation is located.

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Food safety starts with the simplest of our food products. Tracking foods from seed to table covers a lot of territory and touches a lot of hands.

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Knowledge is our best defense against food borne illness. No one ever wants to get the call after serving a group of people on a busy day, and find out that many who ate are ill.