There are many reasons why personal hygiene is very important and the main reason of course is to prevent contamination that will occur when improper personal hygiene is being carried out. When improper hygiene is being carried out, bacteria present from our hands or from the skin or hair or any part of the body which comes into contact with the food will have a chance to be transferred to the food. When working at the salad bar, there will be a lot of raw food that is being handled and since the food is raw, there will be a higher risk of contamination as it is not being cooked at all and that's where personal hygiene plays and important role.
If proper personal hygiene is not being carried out, the consumers that will be eating the food will fall ill and in some worst cause scenario, death will occur. There will be a lot of complicated consequences occurring when consumers fall ill or die for example: the shop will have a bad reputation and the company will have lots of law suit and the personal preparing the food will be sacked and it will be like a chain effect whereby a lot of innocent parties will be drawn into it.
The reason why personal hygiene is important is because personal hygiene is the best way and the easiest way to prevent bacteria from contaminating or even spreading to different areas or even onto food.
Michelle: They should explain in more detail the consequences if one do not practise good personal hygiene when working in a salad bar.
ReplyDeleteIt's true about the proper personal hygiene. It could be better if you could name the bacteria from the skin and the other body parts you mention. and also from the toilet. And what these bacteria will cause harm to people if they have eaten the contaminated food. Like whether the bacteria is food infection, food intoxication or food toxin-mediated infection. This could be relevant. I also think that if you could say that if good personal hygiene is not practice, it will lead to foodborne illness. And you could illustrate how dangerous it is and how will this affect your restaurant. Like, the number of outbreaks. From contamination indicate in this post, you could illustrate more about the cross contamination. Like, from microbial, chemical or physical. Examples given would be even better.
ReplyDeleteShumin :D