Food safety is all about prevention. Most food poisonings occur as a result of mishandling food - keeping it at the wrong temperature, cross contamination, and incorrect reheating. Bad practices allow bacteria to either survive or thrive. To ensure that you are practicing food safety, take a look at the following information. The important point is to treat all foods with care.
Food safety in the home
Home-BBQ-Microwave
How much do you know about safe food preparation in the home? Tips on storage, thawing, handling, cooking, reheating and cleaning are covered as well as safe barbecuing and microwaving.
Food safety in the outdoors
Packed Lunches - Picnics - Camping
Our great Australian climate is ideal for eating outdoors. But the warmer temperatures can create some problems with the safety of food. So if a summer barbecue, picnic or camping excursion is one of your favourite pastimes, take a look here.
There is also information on what foods are safe to prepare for lunches.
Food safety when buying food
Shopping - Eating Out - Take Away
Do you ever think that your supermarket or retail outlet should be responsible for the safety of your food? Well, there are things you can also do to ensure that the product you purchase is safe. Information covered includes use-by dates, refrigeration load limits, and packaging.
How do you know if the prepared food you purchase when eating out is safe? Here we also present some hints on what to look for when walking into a food premises. How should your food be presented and cooked? Here are some tips for bought lunches.
Food Safety Brochures
More information: info@safefood.net.au
The Information contained in the above sections are also available as three separate brochures.
Order a set today from MLA, visit the website www.mla.com.au OR download a PDF copy of the brochures above.