Compounds derived from natural sources, as well as industrial and agricultural waste, are examples of food contaminants. Food contaminants found naturally are mostly of microbiological origin, including pathogenic organisms and some other fungal and bacterial toxins. Food is among the most significant priority for public security because it is one of most basic components of living organisms. As a result, precautions are needed to make sure that food stuffs are exempt from contaminants that enter the food supply via food...
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Food Safety is the proper handling, cooking, and preservation of food to protect people from foodborne illnesses. Preparing and cooking food properly is key to preventing foodborne illness and loss of income from missing work. Food Safety also contributes to health care, millions are spent each year form infections from food. Many people suffer from a lack of knowledge and proper food handling procedures. Tampering Food tampering is the deliberate contamination of food with the intent to cause harm. Tampering...
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Food safety is a global priority and one of the major objectives of the food industry due to high incidence of spoilage microorganisms that cause a risk after consumption. The food industry continues to examine ways to reduce the use of traditional chemical preservatives, some of which have been not linked with microbial resistance and health risks, while improving quality and food safety by controlling the growth of pathogens and spoilage microorganisms. Several studies demonstrated the preservative action of species...
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Agriculture is the backbone to life as it provides food, clothing, medicine and raw materials to humans and nations. Biological agriculture provides the systematic access to nutritious, affordable, and sufficient amount of food in times to come. Although this system of agriculture is effective and highly beneficial, it is highly capital demanding, has an advanced environmental and health risks, and yields low quantity of production for the satisfaction of the entire world in the future. Organic agriculture provides employment to...
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Food security is a situation whereby the amount of nutritionally adequate food produced in a society is sufficient for all the people in that society and also easily accessible to the people of that society. Meanwhile, food insecurity is a situation whereby food produced in a society is not easily accessible to the people of that society, either due to low production, hike in price of food commodities or other causes. In our world today, we do not need a...
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According to dictionary, a food is any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth. Eating is one of the key nutrients that nourishes our body and keeps us strong and healthy and above all from illness. Nutrition is the most vital component of our body's energy so we can be active in our daily activities. All parts of our body need it like digestion, maintaining a clean...
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This was recently a talk over the news, social media platforms, radio broadcast and even on newspapers (e.g., TV Patrol, reported by News Anchor Karen Davila and Julius Babao, Manila Bulleti, published by Madelaine B. Miraflor on the 25th of October 2019) happened on the day of November 4, 2019. An ASF virus also known as African Swine Fever has spread all over the Philippines particularly Pampanga, Rizal, Bulacan, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, Cavite Provinces and in Metro Manila that killed...
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As the days, months, years passes by food safety still remains as a serious question among producers and consumers. Extrusion is a processing technique which involves forcing material through a die. Widely applied in the food industry for shaping and texture, particularly with a view to modify the sensory properties (Properties that can be detected by the sensory organs. For foods, the term relates to the combination of concepts such as visual aesthetics, flavor, texture, astringency (the reaction infants give...
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Food security is access to sufficient food for a healthy and active daily life to all the people at all time. Even though, India is developing with high growth rate, but still India has the problem of food management and its distribution. India has the 17.1% of agriculture's share in India's GDP and has fallen below 20% since the mid-2000s. However, for a country with a population of 1.3 billion, food self-sufficiency and employment are still a hot topic, which...
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The Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906 under the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt and was the first of its kind in the gradual process of enactment of consumer rights and protection laws. Long before the first legitimate interventions of the government in consumer industries, companies had free reign on everything they produced and how they produced it. Their corporate interests superseded the wants, needs, health, and welfare of the consumer base well into every consumer industry from meats...
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Nutrition and food safety are interdependent components of public health and concern everybody, food security remains a serious challenge for many households in Africa and beyond. It has been evident that poor nutrition can lead to reduced immunity, impaired physical and mental development, and reduced productivity. Food security is the condition in which all have access to sufficient food to live healthy and productive lives (World Bank 1986). Food security is dependent on agricultural production, food imports and donations, employment...
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This piece will give a brief reflection on the topic of Food Security and Nutrition, the key learnings from the topic based on several academic journals, which argue the area from differing viewpoints. This all comes from a food system that faces the challenge of feeding more people than ever before under conditions of dwindling natural resources. (Brzeska & Fan: 2016) The view of Brzeska and Fan (2016) is that the challenge of greater food security and nutrition has been...
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