As the sayings " serve safe foods from farm to table" means a lot for everybody to be free from foodborne illnesses. Anybody can prepare foods. It is always important to serve safe foods in every meal. Food safety requires that foods be properly handled throughout every phase from the source of the food to receiving until consumption and even proper utilization of leftovers. Both the European Union and World Health Organization (WHO) stated that food safety is the shared responsibility of all parties involved from ‘farm to fork’/farm to table’ and consumers need to understand and follow basic guidelines in purchasing, transporting, storing, preparing, and consuming food so as to maintain both their individual and societal well-being
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The safety and the hygienic condition of the food must be aware by the family in the home, not just the quality of food that they are eating. The reasons why home is the location associated with significant foodborne illness risk. There are two reasons that detail the importance of food safety, first the greatest proportion of the food we eat is prepared at home, thereby increasing the opportunities for food handling errors to occur and secondly many consumers even those in high-risk groups—do not perceive themselves or someone in their families to be susceptible to foodborne illness, rank their risk of foodborne illness lower than that of others or do not follow all recommended food safety practices, a consequently they do not take sufficient precautions. Carlson A., Kinsey J., Nadav C(2002). In the home, there are people who are vulnerable to foodborne illnesses. Buzby, 2001. as cited by Lum, Albrecht, et. Al (n.d.), young children are at higher risk than adults for foodborne illness because of their underdeveloped immune system, lower body weight, lower stomach acid production, and lack of control over their own meal …show more content…
WHO (2016). Furthermore, WHO reported in 2015 that access to adequate water, sanitation and hygiene is critical in the prevention and care of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which affect more than 1.5 billion people around the world, causing blindness, deformity, permanent disability, and death. The practice of open defecation is also linked to a higher risk of chronic malnutrition which affects 161 million children worldwide, leaving them with serious physical and intellectual harm. In the Western Pacific Region, WHO statistics shows that in 2014 about 94,000 deaths occurred due to diarrhea caused by lack of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services. Over 100 million people in the Region are affected by NTDs such as helminthiasis, schistosomiasis, trachoma, and lymphatic filariasis which are attributed to poor hygiene and sanitation
The safety and the hygienic condition of the food must be aware by the family in the home, not just the quality of food that they are eating. The reasons why home is the location associated with significant foodborne illness risk. There are two reasons that detail the importance of food safety, first the greatest proportion of the food we eat is prepared at home, thereby increasing the opportunities for food handling errors to occur and secondly many consumers even those in high-risk groups—do not perceive themselves or someone in their families to be susceptible to foodborne illness, rank their risk of foodborne illness lower than that of others or do not follow all recommended food safety practices, a consequently they do not take sufficient precautions. Carlson A., Kinsey J., Nadav C(2002). In the home, there are people who are vulnerable to foodborne illnesses. Buzby, 2001. as cited by Lum, Albrecht, et. Al (n.d.), young children are at higher risk than adults for foodborne illness because of their underdeveloped immune system, lower body weight, lower stomach acid production, and lack of control over their own meal …show more content…
WHO (2016). Furthermore, WHO reported in 2015 that access to adequate water, sanitation and hygiene is critical in the prevention and care of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which affect more than 1.5 billion people around the world, causing blindness, deformity, permanent disability, and death. The practice of open defecation is also linked to a higher risk of chronic malnutrition which affects 161 million children worldwide, leaving them with serious physical and intellectual harm. In the Western Pacific Region, WHO statistics shows that in 2014 about 94,000 deaths occurred due to diarrhea caused by lack of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services. Over 100 million people in the Region are affected by NTDs such as helminthiasis, schistosomiasis, trachoma, and lymphatic filariasis which are attributed to poor hygiene and sanitation