Food contamination can happen in your own home right on your kitchen counter.
Food contamination on floor.
Growing harvesting processing storing shipping or preparing.
Contamination of food can happen at any point of production.
The 5 second rule gives you permission to eat something that fell on the floor as long.
But by following a few food safety habits when cooking and storing food you can help.
And if that floor is contaminated as is often the case during the course of the day cross contamination is possible.
Many of the utensils and equipment you use have food contact surfaces.
There are a number of steps that experts suggest to keep floors from serving as a vector of potentially infectious microorganisms.
Food to food equipment to food and people to food.
A tiny number can grow to a large number in just a few hours.
Plates glasses forks and tongs are examples.
Preventing cross contamination when serving food surfaces that touch food are called food contact surfaces.
Floor cleaning and disinfection is an essential component of a larger effective environmental hygiene program in the hospital.
There are three main types of cross contamination.
Many germs grow quickly in food held at room temperature.
You can contaminate these surfaces if you are not careful when handling them.
Solutions to floor contamination.
This is especially troublesome for raw ready to eat foods such as salads or other produce.
Follow these practices to prevent this.