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UNIT 1 - HEALTH EDUCATION
Healthy Eating / Food safety
Causes of food poisoning.
Foods can be contaminated if they are not washed, handled, cooked and preserved properly.
Causes of food
poisoning
Cross contamination
Refreezing food
Uncovered foods
Foods prepared
in dirty places
Cooked food exposed
to the sun
Bulged cans
1. Eating food that has not been properly cooked.
2. Cooking food in unhygienic (dirty) kitchen or by the roadside.
3. Leaving food uncovered.
4. Using same knife to cut cooked and raw food on the same chopping board.
5. Food in bulged cans.
6. Food that has been refrozen after being thawed.