This document discusses general personal and food hygiene practices. It covers topics like handwashing, bathing regularly, nail care, oral hygiene, sleep, and food handling. Maintaining good personal hygiene habits like these helps promote health by reducing the risk of infection and illness. It also stresses the importance of food hygiene, as food workers need to be healthy to prepare safe, contamination-free meals. Overall, the document emphasizes that proper personal and food hygiene is essential for living a healthy life free from diseases.

1. GENERAL PERSONAL
& FOOD HYGIENE
PRACTICES

2. CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION TO PERSONAL &
FOOD HYGIENE
 SOME POINTS ABOUT GENERAL
PERSONAL & FOOD HYGIENE
 CONCLUSION

3. 1.1 GENERAL FOOD HYGIENE
 All over the world people are affected every
day by consuming unhygienic food.
 Food hygiene usually refer to contamination
with ‘microorganisms’ or ‘microbes
 For prepare safe and hygienic food food
handler or worker should healthy and clean.
 The food we eat should be free from
contamination such as microorganisms and
chemicals.

4. SOME POINTS RELATED TO
GENERAL FOOD HYGIENE
 FOOD HANDLING
There are various process control requirements
to be satisfied at each step of the handling
process.They cover the each of the following
steps for food:
a. receipt b. storage
c. processing d. display
e. packaging f. transportation
g. disposal

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 Make sure the everything (utensils) used in
preparing the food is clean and germs free.
 Ensuring that food preparation areas and
surfaces are clean and hygienic.
 Destroy the bacteria in food through
adequate cooking or processing.
 Protect the food from risk of contamination.

6. 1.1 INTRODUCTION TO PERSONAL
HYGIENE
 Good personal hygiene is essential to
promoting good health.
 The first step of good health
 Not only protects you from poor health, but
also shields those around you from suffering
illnesses
 Make you feel good about yourself and keep
you free of bacteria, viruses and illnesses

7. 1.2 SOME POINTS RELATED TO
GENERAL PERSONAL HYGIENE
If you want to minimize your risk of
infection and also enhance your overall
health, follow these basic personal
hygiene habits:

8. 1.2.1 Wash your hands
 Washing your hands before preparing or
eating food,
 After going to bathroom, after going
coughing or sneezing, and after handling
garbage.
 keep a hygiene product, like an alcohol-based
sanitizing gel, handy for when soap and water
is not available.

9. 1.2.2 Bath regularly
 First regular activities .
 Wash your body and your hair often
 Not need to shower or bathe every day but
should clean your body and shampoo your
hair at regular intervals that work for you .
 It helps to decrease the causes of illnesses.

10. 1.2.3 Trim your nails
 keeping your finger and toenails trimmed
and in good shape will prevent problems such
as hang nails and infected nail beds.
 feet that are clean and dry less likely to
contract athlete’s foot.

11. 1.2.4 Brush and Floss
 Should brush your teeth after every meal.
 At the very least, brush your teeth twice a day
and floss daily.
 Brushing minimize the accumulation of
bacteria in your mouth, which can cause
tooth decay and gum disease.
 To maintain a healthy smile, visit the dentist
at six-months intervals for checkups and
cleaning.

12. 1.2.5 Sleep Tight
 Get plenty of rest 8 to 10 hours a night, so
that you are refreshed and are ready to take
on the day every morning.
 Lack of sleep can leave you feeling run down
and can compromise your body’s natural
defenses, your immune system.

13. 1.3 CONCLUSION
 Good habits help keep your healthy.
 Food handler or worker should to be
healthy to offer hygienic food which is free
fro m bacteria and germs.
Therefore, the general personal & food
hygiene is very important for living
healthy life without having any illnesses or
diseases.

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