ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE: IMPLICATIONS FOR FOOD HANDLING

Abstract

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