Food hygiene and safety: Need to be concerned immediately!

Food is one of the indispensable necessities in people's daily life. Food is a source of nutrition to maintain life, supplementing the loss of living expenses and maintaining a healthy and developing life.

Food hygiene and safety (FSH) is very important in daily meals and related to health, physical health of people, and human resources to develop the country, making an important contribution to maintaining maintain a strong and intellectual ethnic race.

Daily sources of food bring flour (starch, rice, potatoes, grains . from plants), oils, fats (vegetable oils, or animal fats), proteins (protein proteins). animals such as meat, fish, eggs, milk or plants such as legumes) and vitamins, minerals contained in everyday food sources.

Food sources are produced from agriculture, forestry, fisheries and livestock, so food safety must be started from production including clean air, clean water, clean land for hygienic production, and Breeding seedlings must match safety hygiene standards in the production process.

Pollution agents in the production process can be:

1. Toxic chemicals, heavy metals, radioactive substances . exist in the air, soil and water used in food production.

2. Toxic chemicals used in the process of cultivating plants, cultivating aquatic animals and animals in rearing farms include plant protection drugs, growth drugs, hormones and antibiotics Prohibited use in food production.

3. Pathogenic microorganisms during processing, processing, packaging, packaging.

In order to obtain the source of food hygiene and safety, producers and relevant authorities must strictly abide by the above conditions.

Pollutants may be available in the natural environment or as a result of industrial processing.

For agent 1, authorities need to identify and delineate places that can be used for food production without being affected by contamination of toxic chemicals, heavy metals or radioactive concentrations. High . And the manufacturer absolutely complies with the instructions and instructions of the authorities.

For agent 2, authorities need to guide and test producers in strictly complying with regulations on production, farming, and chemicals used.

Agent 3 is the cause of pathogenic microorganisms (poisoning), authorities must guide and strictly control producers in the processing of vegetables, meat, eggs, milk, aquatic products in accordance with norms. Standard processing, processing, additives and packaging.

The management agencies and manufacturers can do so to produce the right food source with food safety and hygiene to supply to the domestic and export markets, especially the consumers are assured in the meals. day.

In order to disseminate knowledge of food hygiene and safety, the authorities must also pay more attention to the issue of educating safe and hygiene living in society, so that each individual in the community pays attention to keeping his own health and for those who use their manufactured goods, in other words, the producers of the goods must be responsible for food safety (or safety / consumer goods).

Recently in newspapers, flu, dengue fever, cholera raging. Besides, there are many other dangerous diseases that are "recurring", such as tuberculosis and malaria. Medical news warns that cancer is growing frighteningly.

Should food safety and hygiene and living environment safety be an immediate task to protect people's health, quality of life and breeds? Prevention is always better than cure, especially when suffering from difficult diseases that can be difficult to cure, even expensive.