Safety

In the foodservice operation it means freedom from risk, danger, injury or harmful effects to person's
well being and health.

-food and water safety

-safe environment

-prevention of physical injuries

Safety issues includes:

Food Safety

it refers to the protecting the food supply from microbial, chemical, and physical hazards or
contamination that may occur during all stages of food production and handling-growing, harvesting,
processing, transporting, distributing, preparing and storing. The goal of food safety monitoring is to
keep food wholesome

-Avoidance of loss of customers and sales

-Presentation of prestige and reputation

-Keeping out of lawsuits

-Enhancement of employee morale

-Prevention of employee absenteeism

-Avoidance of embarrassment

Importance of Food Safety in the Food Industry

Environmental Sanitation

it refers to the quality of air we breathe indoors and outdoors, proper disposal of waste from homes and
industries, control of vectors like pets or other organisms that spreads disease, and practice of hygienic
measures by everyone. It defined as "the promotion of hygiene and prevention of disease, and
consequences of ill health, relating to environmental factors

Food

it refers to any article, whether simple, mixed, or compounded, that is used as food, drink, confectionery
or condiments. It is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of
plants or animals origins, contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins or
minerals. The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by organism's cells in an effort to
produce energy, maintain life or stimulate growth
-International Association for Food Protection

-World Resources Institute

-World Food Programme

-Food and Agriculture Organization

-International Food Information Council

Food Safety and Food Security are monitored by agencies like:

-sustainability

-biological diversity

-climate change

-nutritional economics

-population growth

-water supply

-access to food

These agencies addresses issues such as:

Sanitation

it refers to the state of being clean, health promoting free from disease-producing agents and visible
dirt. Wholesome foods and portable drinking water have sanitary qualities

Sanitas

Latin word of Sanitation

health

Sanitas

Cleanliness

it is the absence of visible oil or dirt and is not necessarily sanitized; it must be aesthetically acceptable
to the consumer

Hazard
it refers to any agents: biological/microbiological, chemical, and physical or any condition that has a
potential of causing adverse effect on health. Food Hazards are not only the agents found in food but
could be the texture, characteristics or condition of the food itself that may be deleterious

Risk

it refers to the function of the probability of an adverse health effect and severity of that effect,
consequential to a hazard in food

Food Establishment

it refers to an operation or system that stores, prepares, packages, vends or serve food, it provides food
for human consumption such as restaurants, markets or groceries, vending machine operators, food
services in institutions, sport clubs, catering operations, home deliveries, takeout orders, mobile food
unit and other food operators