Food safety

consider the risk of slips and trips of employees working within the premises, particularly the restaurant. Slips and trips are a big problem in catering areas, employees “working in kitchen and food service environments are more likely to be injured through slips and trips than by anything else.” Health and Safety Executive. (2012). Due to the fast-paced environment in the kitchen it makes it more likely that these types of incidents would occur. Slips could happen to waiters who are…

Processed Food? When you think of processed foods most people just think chips, pop, cookies etc. but it is any food that has been modified before we consume it. From foods that are fermented, frozen, heated to dried to foods. Some examples include: • Fresh cut fruit/vegetables that have been packaged • Canned foods • Breakfast cereals, oatmeal’s, crackers • Convenience foods such as microwaveable meals/ready meals There are three main categories to be considered for processed food. Minimal…

Fortification is one way in which food processing can alter the bioactive profile of a food. Significant health crises have been resolved via the implementation in 1924 of the addition of iodine to salt to prevent goiter and the 1940s implementation of the additions of vitamin D to milk to prevent rickets and niacin to flour to prevent pellagra. A more recent example is the establishment of the addition of folate to bread and breakfast cereals to prevent neural tube defects in the offspring of…

I am a Food Science major hoping to pursue my masters degree at Washington State University. I decided to go to college because I believe that higher education is the key to success. I have made pursuing my college degree in Food Science my priority. I am highly motivated and started my college career in high school completing my Associate in Arts and Sciences. I focused my courses to directly relate to my Food Science degree. I wanted to pursue food science because of the wide career…

Chipotle for the Win: For those of you NOT following the life-threatening news surrounding Chipotle, here is a quick catch up: Chipotle was slammed by a lawsuit at the end of 2015 for failing to disclose information about transgressions against food safety. This accusation was brought on by the outbreak of E. Coli found in Chipotle’s notoriously fresh ingredients. Nearly 500 people have contracted a foodborne illness from the Chipotle chain since July. Ironically, 374 of the 500 people sickened…

questionnaire. Empirical research design is used to describe the existing phenomenon about the position of Nestle Maggi noodle among customers. Akanksha Chhibber (2015) the author discusses the indispensable value of food safety and standards authority of India (FSSAI) in the food industry through the elucidation of the recent ban imposed by FSSAI…

Food Supply Did you know that 140 billion animals are killed for human consumption ever year? For many people that would be a very shocking number because many people use the psychology “Out of sight, out of mind”. This is something that a lot of individuals use to not be held accountable because for many people if they do not see it then they do not think about it. Often people do not think of how the animals who become their food are treated, who prepares it, or the conditions it was made…

States today the most consumed food is meat. Most people have it three times a day. Maybe have some bacon for breakfast, chicken for lunch, and maybe a cheeseburger for dinner. With this high demand of products there needs to be more meat. In doing so the slaughterhouses, processing plants, and the packaging facilities are running at full capacity all the time. Doing this there are some risks that take place like the animals suffering, workers being mistreated, safety concerns for the…

E-number food additives, their chemistry and role in food Since the dawn of time, humans had using several simpler and yet natural food preservation techniques such as preserving meat using salt, or immersing onions and cucumber in a jar of vinegar to keep the food fresh and last longer. The method of preserving food had been evolved over a significant period of time. (Heldman, 2003) Food additives are either a natural or synthetic substances which was added intentionally to food to improve the…

researched are Sysco and U.S Foods. Both companies are in the food industry and they are each other’s biggest competitors. We have worked over the past week to gather as much information as possible involving these two companies. Competition U.S Foods is a very similar business to Sysco, both being food distributors. U.S Foods is one of the nation's largest food distributor. Since U.S Foods is a similar business, it is considered to be a direct competition towards Sysco. U.S Foods comes in at…