Food safety is crucial for human health, as unsafe food can lead to diseases and long-term health issues, including neurological disorders and cancer. The entire food chain, from production to consumption, plays a role in food safety, which has become more complex due to globalization. Improving food safety requires shared responsibility among industry, government, and consumers, as well as education and awareness about safe food handling practices.

1. Why Food Safety is
Important?
Food Safety is one of the most important
topic to talk about these days. If the food
safety is not properly done then it can
harm the human body from inside or
outside. So today we talk about the Food
safety. Why it is important and also some
exciting facts about the food safety.

2. In today’s busy life we don’t have time to look
out on our health. Everyone busy in their daily
schedule. For good health, we have to take
healthy foods. So, we have to make sure that
the food we are eating is not harmful for us.
The food must not be contaminated with
harmful viruses, toxins, bacteria, parasites and
chemicals. This is the main reason for the most
of the diseases which are happen through the
food. The food safety depends upon from the
farmer’s farm to the consumer’s plate.

3. It doesn’t matter you are a manufacturer,
consumer or distributor, the food chain
contains everyone in its process. So, because
of the food globalization, the food
contaminations which are occurring in one
place can affect the health of the consumers
on the other side of the planet. That’s why we
are discussing about the food safety because
it is one of the most important thing which
matters a lot for the human health. Thus, it is
necessary to learn the safe food handling
practice for everyone.

4. Here are some Exciting
facts on food safety
Food Borne diseases are the main problem
which occurs due to the lack of food safety.
Stomach pain, loose motions and vomiting are
the common symptoms of the food borne
disease. The contaminated food can cause the
long term health problems. The contaminated
food with naturally occurring toxins or with
heavy metals can be a reason for the long
term diseases including neurological disorders
and cancer.

5. Many people fall ill every year just because a
result of eating unsafe food. It also be a
reason for the death of lot of peoples every
year. According to the reports more than 1.5
million children die annually because of the
Diarrheal diseases. The water and the food is
the basic needs of the human body. The main
reason for the illness is contaminated water
and food. Many reports have proved that the
proper preparation of food can prevent the
most food borne diseases. So it become
necessary to learn about the food safety
practices.

6. The contaminated food can affect the health
of the people who has fragile or poor health
status. These people can easily lead to the
serious illness and death instead of the people
with good health, for example, sick, pregnant
woman and the elders. So its necessary to
take care the peoples more then the normal
person. The preparation of food and the
water which we are giving to them has to be
good. We can say that the food borne
diseases are commonly spread in vulnerable
people rather than the other groups.

7. The tasks of food suppliers are not easy
these days. There are different stages in the
supply tasks like harvesting or
slaughtering, on farm production, storage,
processing, transport and distribution
before the food reaches to the customers. If
any of these stages they lack then that will
be the reason for the food spoilage. The
globalization has also made the food safety
more complex. The trade and food
production has made the food chain
complicated and longer.

8. To improve the food safety, we have to make
use of the best available technology and
science. Food Safety is a shared responsibility
where industry, governments, producers and
consumers can play their roles. The food safety
can be achieved by getting the expertise in
different disciplines like microbiology,
toxicology, nutrition, parasitological, health
economics, veterinary and human medicine.
The school education, women’s groups and the
local communities can also play an important
role.
How We can Improve the
Food Safety

9. Consumers have to be well informed about
the food safety practices. They can play more
important role in food safety by getting all
information about the food safety and wise
food choices. Wise food choices means to buy
good food and use the food before the food
spoilage. Food safety also depends on good
food habits which makes an impact in food
safety. They should know about how to
handle the food safety and common food
hazards, by using the information which is
provided in the food labeling.

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