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    This document provides guidelines for ensuring food safety. It discusses the importance of washing fruits and vegetables before consuming to remove any bacteria or contaminants from the outside. It advises against consuming uncooked meat as this can lead to diseases like tapeworm. When in doubt about a food's safety, it is best to throw it out. Some specific unsafe foods mentioned include raw flour or items containing raw eggs due to potential salmonella. The document stresses the importance of checking use-by and best-before dates and of washing hands before handling or eating food for basic food safety.

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    This document provides guidelines for ensuring food safety. It discusses the importance of washing fruits and vegetables before consuming to remove any bacteria or contaminants from the outside. It advises against consuming uncooked meat as this can lead to diseases like tapeworm. When in doubt about a food's safety, it is best to throw it out. Some specific unsafe foods mentioned include raw flour or items containing raw eggs due to potential salmonella. The document stresses the importance of checking use-by and best-before dates and of washing hands before handling or eating food for basic food safety.

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    This document provides guidelines for ensuring food safety. It discusses the importance of washing fruits and vegetables before consuming to remove any bacteria or contaminants from the outside. It advises against consuming uncooked meat as this can lead to diseases like tapeworm. When in doubt about a food's safety, it is best to throw it out. Some specific unsafe foods mentioned include raw flour or items containing raw eggs due to potential salmonella. The document stresses the importance of checking use-by and best-before dates and of washing hands before handling or eating food for basic food safety.

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    Biology Project - Anandita Vashisht 7b

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    This document provides guidelines for ensuring food safety. It discusses the importance of washing fruits and vegetables before consuming to remove any bacteria or contaminants from the outside. It advises against consuming uncooked meat as this can lead to diseases like tapeworm. When in doubt about a food's safety, it is best to throw it out. Some specific unsafe foods mentioned include raw flour or items containing raw eggs due to potential salmonella. The document stresses the importance of checking use-by and best-before dates and of washing hands before handling or eating food for basic food safety.

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    How do you know which food is safe

    for you and which food is not?


    We all know that healthy food helps our body to develop
    better immunity and provides our body with the necessary
    nutrients, while unhealthy food or junk food actually deprives
    us of all those important salts and nutrients needed by our body and instead may cause
    other health issues.
    But when looking out for healthy food choices, we must also make sure whether that food is safe
    to consume.

    The FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) facilitates the safety of a particular food
    item and any food product with the “fssai” label is safe to consume.

    This label tells us which food is safe to eat and almost all foods have this label.

    But Sometimes food may also get spoilt at our homes and may not be safe to eat anymore. The
    following guidelines are very Important to make sure we consume safe food at our home at how
    to handle food safely.

    Wash all fruits and Washing vegetables and fruits that were
    and vegetables exposed to the outside environment, before
    before consuming consuming is important to clean the fruits and
    and utensils vegetables and prevent any diseases. This is
    Consuming uncooked meat can lead to
    before cooking the most important step in food safety.
    manyand eating diseases like
    dangerous
    tapeworm(taenia) in the intestine or other
    diseases like food poisoning thus, food must
    Not
    be cooked before consuming.
    Consuming
    uncooked
    meat

    Wash the fruits


    and vegetables
    before peeling.

    When in
    doubt, throw When you are not sure whether the food
    it out is safe to eat and you are not able to
    make out by smelling, throw it out. You
    can also remember things like food
    items in the refrigerator without power
    for 24-48 like fish should be thrown out
    immediately.
    Never eat raw flour
    Don’t eat raw flour or any food item or any food item
    containing uncooked eggs. The uncooked containing raw eggs
    eggs may contain harmful bacteria or
    salmonella. Cook eggs properly or baked
    or cook the dough properly before
    consuming.

    Checking use by and Checking these days is important to


    best by dates know whether the food can be
    consumed anymore or not and can
    be used anymore or not. Use by tells
    by which date we should use the
    item that is consume it and best
    before or bet buy tells us for how
    long the best quality of the food can
    be enjoyed.

    Washing hands is the first and most


    important step to food safety. Wash you Most importantly,
    hands before and after eating and before wash your hands.
    and after cooking.

    The above mentioned ways of food safety help to make sure that the
    food to be consumed is safe to consume or not. This is important to
    prevent food borne diseases and infections.

    Eat safe, stay healthy! (ANANDITA VASHISHT 7B)

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