10 golden rules to avoid food poisoning

In the summer, the weather is hot, food is easily rotten, the risk of poisoning is higher, so the Food Safety Department offers 10 principles to ensure food safety.

1. Choose safe food. Choose fresh food. Raw vegetables and fruits must be soaked and washed thoroughly with clean water. Fruit should peel before eating.

Frozen food should be processed immediately after thawing, because if it is thawed and frozen again, it will cause food loss of nutrients and less safety.

2. Cook food thoroughly. Thoroughly cooking food ensures that the food center temperature reaches over 70 ° C.

3. Eat immediately after cooking. Eat as soon as you finish cooking because the longer the food is, the more likely it is that it will change the substance, lose its nutrition and may be invaded by bacteria in the surrounding environment.

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4. Carefully store cooked foods. In order to keep food for more than 5 hours, it is necessary to keep hot continuously above 60 ° C or cold below 10 ° C. Food for young children should not be reused.

5. Cook food again thoroughly. The cooked food that is reused after 5 hours must be thoroughly boiled.

6. Do not mix cooked food with raw food to avoid cross contamination between cooked and raw food. Cooked food can be contaminated by direct contact with live or indirect food with dirty surfaces (such as sharing knives and cutting boards for raw and cooked food).

7. Wash your hands before preparing food and after each interruption to do something else. If you have an infection in your hand, carefully bandage and seal the infected wound before preparing food.

8. Keep food processing surfaces clean. Because food is susceptible to contamination, any surface used to prepare food must be kept clean. Dishcloths need to be boiled in boiling water and replaced regularly before reuse.

9. Cover up food to avoid insects and other animals. Cover up food in sealed containers, cupboards, glass cabinets, tables . That is the best way to protect it. Towel used to cover cooked food must be washed before use.

10. Use safe, clean water to wash food and cook. Clean water is colorless, odorless, strange and does not contain germs. Be boiled before making ice drink. Be especially careful with the water used to cook food for young children.