Health Hygiene & Sanitation

Lesson 20 : Food Hygiene

Hygiene Of Food Handlers

• Food handlers, should be subjected to complete medical examination to rule out any infections.
• They should be thoroughly examined before employing in eating establishments
• Any person with history of communicable diseases like typhoid fever, diphtheria, chronic dysentery, tuberculosis etc should not be employed.
• Their health should be appraised on day to day basis.
• All health problems in food handlers are to be notified.
• Food handlers should be emphasized the importance of hand washing, trimming finger nails regularly, keeping their clothes and hair clean, etc.
• Also while preparing food; they should avoid coughing, sneezing, licking fingers, cleaning nose or smoking in the cooking areas. They must use clean kitchen napkins.