ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE: IMPUCATIONS FOR FOOD HANDLING

Abstract

This paper examined environmental hygiene: implications for food handling. The paper also discussed food handling and environment. Also, food contamination, food handling and agents of food contamination were discussed. The paper noted that susceptibility to food-borne diseases like cholera, diarrhea, typhoid fever and shigellosis can be avoided through hygienic handling of food from point of production, through preparation to consumption, by the final consumer. The factors facilitating transmission of food borne diseases and prevention of food borne diseases were outline. The work also talked about methods of food preservation. Hence, it recommended that health education of food handlers and food vendors- will be of immense importance to prevent food-borne diseases for better health of individual consumers.