Question

Activity

In this lesson, you learned about the importance of hygiene during food preparation. Write a food industry article informing readers about the
four steps to the food safety. Your answer should include the importance of food safety, as well as detailed information on how to keep sanitary
conditions when handling food, proper cooking temperatures, storing procedures for food, and how to prevent cross contamination.

Answer 1

According to CDC, there should be four steps for food safety during handling food and food preparation to maintain hygiene. harmful parasite and germs can be present in the meat or other type of food or the utensils, or kitchen surface that lead to contamination. These four steps are :

1. Clean - clean and wash hands, and all the surfaces of the kitchen with soap and water.

2. Separate - keep all the food covered and separated from one another as meat, poultry, fishes, and other food and their juices can spread germs.

3. Cook - cook every food at the right temperature to kill or the germs, parasites present, or possibly present in them.

4. Chill - refrigerate the food accordingly and freeze them for the right time. Cover each food covered so there would be no cross-contamination between meat, veggies, poultry and other.