BACKGROUND The street-food industry lacks legal recognition, it operates in unstable and precarious conditions, involving women and men with minimal or no knowledge of hygienic food handling practices. Infective eggs, bacteria, toxins and cysts of faecal orally transmissible parasites are common agents responsible for food contamination in developing countries. OBJECTIVE To determine the inci...

Everyone has anequal right to adequate, appropriate,nutritious, and safe food but along with this comes a great responsibility which is ensure safety for all. Republic Act 10611 otherwise known as the Food Safety of 2013 was signed into law by President Benigno Aquino strengthen countrys regulatory structure. It primarily adheres declaration Philippine constitution safeguard promote people heal...

Aleksandr Novoslavskij, Aistė Kabašinskienė, Hannu Korkeala, Mindaugas Malakauskas Department of Food Safety and Animal Hygiene, Veterinary Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Tilžės g. 18, LT-47181, Kaunas, Lithuania; e-mail: [email protected] Department of Food and Environmental Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine P.O. Box 66, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, He...

Describes a survey of food safety training for staff in the retail, care and catering industry. Training provisions were evaluated against the guidance in the relevant industry guides. Additional information was collected on the managers’ perceptions of and attitudes towards hygiene training. The extent and level of training of the retail butchers, who had to comply with the licensing regulatio...

There is a growing recognition of the involvement of the home in several public health and hygiene issues and of the need to promote effective hygiene practices for the home. Hygiene practice in the home includes the categories of personal hygiene, food hygiene, environmental or surface hygiene, and home health care. This article reviews some of the hygiene risks in the home, including the role...