Saturday, 29 October 2011

Implement HACCP food safety programme in the restaurant-principle 1 (a)


Hazard analysis and critical Control Point (HACCP) program is not required for the food service industry. 30 years ago, developed by NASA to manage food safety, HACCP has become the definitive disease controlling if the FDA program. HACCP is a powerful, because it requires the commercial kitchen to identify and track workers, which then may cause illness, where the food is exposed. Many of the local boards of health to promote the use of the HACCP, because it is so effective control of outbreaks and the sickness, but again, it is not a mandatory program.

So why use the HACCP, where it is necessary? Since the conclusion of even one customer can check the spelling of the sick, the right to visits and financial ruin for your company. Large institutions that serve meals a day, such as prisons and universities with thousands of practice, HACCP vuosienkin after this very reason. Small independent traders and small, medium and large chain is less vulnerable to the eating experience, and yet many of the risks of the use of HACCP-based food program. HACCP is designed to give the most active as a member of the Board of control of critical points in the food safety of your own institution.

Principle 1-understanding the risks and risk factors

At this point is also the abbreviation for the first part of the HACCP: hazard analysis. The second part of the critical control points, is not very useful if you do not know which hazards control. If diseases come from three primary group risks:

Biological agents: bacteria and bacteria produce toxins, parasites and viruses.

Physical objects: jewelry, stones, glass, bone and metal fragments and packaging materials.

Chemical pollution: allergens, cleaning compounds, food additives, insecticides

If illnesses can arise from all three of these groups, although the most common, and most disturbing restaurateurs, biological contamination. All three groups can be used to monitor effectively the IMPLEMENTATION of the HACCP program. How to actually get these risks are brought to the attention of the food is prepared and served in the restaurants?

The following are the primary risk factors:

Unsafe food sources. The restaurant is only one link in a long chain that brings food to the table is fixed in the Office of the diner. Unfortunately, the restaurants, they are the last link in the chain. This means they have to take the blame if diseases.

Inadequate cooking. Unlike the suspicious sources of restaurants can and should be controlled strictly how the Cooked food.

An invalid status temperatures. Raw food and Cooked food, both must be kept in appropriate temperature (41 degrees Fahrenheit) to prevent the spread of biological agents.

Contaminated equipment. Commercial kitchen equipment used in any of the above in an easy-to-move the food before it is served to the customer the risks into three groups.

Poor personal hygiene. Similarly, the staff can easily move the three risk groups, the most serious at the time of the monitoring of foodstuffs intended for human consumption.

The most common way to deal with the hazards are:

Only the purchase of foodstuffs in the approved product for reliable, source. To ensure the proper and safe handling, also when the food arrives at the restaurant.

Always cook food thoroughly. Make sure that you buy like uncooked milk products and the juice is pasteurized or thermally processed products.

Make sure that the food is the appropriate temperature when you're hot, cold space, cooking or freezing it. Also marking the date of a foodstuff and to comply with the requirements laid down in the first paragraph, first Out (FIFO) strategy, which is the oldest first.

Each restaurant detects these risk factors. Perform hazard analysis facility, the customer, if necessary, carefully assessed when the why and how each of the above factors, and that three of the risks involved. When you have a complete list of hazards and risks, you can start the process, addressing and minimizing these problems to develop.







Saturday, 22 October 2011

Keep your family safe food, the most common types of Poison "


The most common treatment is one of the poisoning will affect thousands of people around the world each year. Ironically, in most cases, it can be avoided by following a few basic rules that everyone can develop a second nature. Taking some steps to reduce the ever happens to you, great or family treatment facilities, and opportunities.

Wash cooking utensils and eating carefully. In today's modern dishwashers are sterilization cycles, which should be used, however without the dishwasher; Most of the cooking and eating utensils.

And food and to wash the hands before and after them in the preparation. The majority of bacteria are brought into the home page of the grocery store. Food preparation premises prior to washing to reduce the consumption of all the great chance of something that is bad for you.

Discard the food, which makes it within 24 hours. Always keep the leftovers in the refrigerator, or wrap the text in the container, and then make sure that the Appliance is configured to keep a cool enough fresh food. 38-44 Degrees, the temperature is recommended.

Always thoroughly cook meat and eggs. Keeping a food thermometer is a good way to keep your family safe and undercooking. The basic rule is to cook the meat to 160 degrees, 180 for poultry.

Diet food

Cross-contamination is one way in the food industry is spreading disease and bacteria. One of the error Varottavia, Cooked food, contaminated surfaces onto the page. If you can run on a plate of raw meat on the grill, Cooked meat, do not put back onto the plate to do the same again. Work with one particular type of food, and then another without washing hands and surfaces. Separated to keep the food, including pasta cooked food. Bacteria grow rapidly at room temperature so refrigerate leftovers as soon as possible. A good rule of thumb is to have been submitted for four hours-toss it.

Monitor and report on

People do share without specifying the sources of food to the poor before the epidemic. The majority are related to the monitoring of foodstuffs intended for human consumption, the illness is reported. Without your help the other to get sick. If you become sick, and the suspect is the food is not responsible or liable for any illness, the report in such a way as to ensure that the Health Department can be traced back to the source file for the problem. It is a pity, but the children, the elderly and pregnant women are easier to bacteria. Washing your hands often to each other safe.

First Aid Measures

If you or someone you know is sick and you suspect that the processing plants as possible in a video chat, do not panic. In most cases, symptoms pass 24-48 hours. It is typically four hours before the onset of illness. Diarrhea nausea, fever and dried, is home to three of the symptoms. This is, if you become sick.

can be dealt with over the counter medication diarrhea, if you do not fall within the scope of application of diuretic. If you are a diuretic or children, the family physician be consulted before processing.

avoid solid food for diarrhea, if, as it only aggravate. Drink plenty of fluids, preferably electrolytes to avoid dried.

When a person is temporary diarrhea, they appear to avoid lactose as milk strengthens the violence. Caffeine Increases only dried. If the stool is black or Maroon, this means the client is in the blood in the stool, contact a doctor or go to the emergency room.

If the diseased shellfish or mushrooms, go to the emergency room. It could be, or Botulism toxin, and must be treated immediately.

Critical symptoms

If you have other symptoms in addition to the described above, such as swine fever to 101 degrees or higher, arthritic type pain or racing heartbeat, go to the emergency room or call 911. Typically, these problems in the diplomas, certificates and other evidence of much worse in the case of processing establishments and must be monitored carefully.







Saturday, 15 October 2011

Leptospirosis-bacterial food matches the Plunders of the dogs!

It is a bacterial infection that can affect the dog's liver, kidneys and blood. The bacteria that causes the illness, in principle, in particular, the rats are rodents, but dogs with this disease can also infect other dogs too. Dog urinary infection is very common swallowing of the mean value, but these bacteria may be thin and damaged skin too.


It is an odd number, which can often never signs or symptoms. In these cases, the bacteria are a natural defense against forced the animal. At other times, and may threaten the disease mostly, the disease infected animal life. These diseases are the major 3 hemorrhagic (bleeding, infection, bleeding reasons), RENAL (kidney infection), and the icteric (liver inflammation).


Hemorrhagic Leptospirosis begins with high fever, general lethargy, loss of appetite. Small hemorrhages begins to occur in the eyes and mouth too, and the dog may develop bloody diarrhea and vomiting. This is a serious, often in the form.


Icteric Leptospirosis frequently may start like hemorrhagic form; take the lethargy, appetite loss and swine fever. The eyes and mouth disease takes the appearance of yellow, white, such as the yellowness of the victims. Very rare cases, the animal skin with yellowish and may appear jaundiced.


Renal begins too appetite loss, lethargic depression and to the victims, but in the end it leads to kidney failure.


This disease, 3 types of support are all kinds of sickness, and 3 can be too serious. Often the animals whose survival is a chronic Leptospirosis RENAL kidney yleistilaan and their remaining lifetime.


Treatment by the use of antibiotics to be accomplished, even if yleistilaan has been requested in good time, is usually very successful. Cases take Leptospirosis in North America are very rare, thanks to the development of a vaccine. Cultivation takes place for the yleistilaan of the puppies have only 6 weeks old and already they are shooting at the annual renewal, to maintain integrity.


Vaccination, a clean and hygienic situation are the very best way to avoid this disease in dogs. If the dog was not able to due to come into contact with rat urine: carrying the disease, the dog is infected, although it is a non-vaccinated. To cause an adverse effect on the leptospirosis Antigen, unlike the others, the dog. The reaction is usually very mild, and it often contains the invoice and the appetite, with the loss. These effects only takes a few days and then the dog is a wonderful, above all, it ensures the disturbance.


Leptospirosis is a dog can get the disease, and no one would like to see nastiest witnesses his with his PET illness Sort of this suffering. Fortunately, we have a very good, the existence of the vaccine; little animals must be to counter the disease, as well as the current day in the life of the age.

Saturday, 8 October 2011

Natural Food Poisoning-Food Borne Illness, Remedies, Treatments and Possible Cures Supplements

If you are experiencing the following acute (severe or sharp) symptoms, chances are you're feeling the effects of a food poisoning or food borne illness:


Frequent vomiting lasting longer than 1 day (Adult only) Severe diarrhea loose stool every 1 to 2 hours lasting longer than 2 days. (Adult only. Children would be less than a day) Severe Dehydration - dry mouth, very dizzy or lightheaded, fast heartbeat and breathing, very little or no urine, no tears, sunken eyes, very lightheaded or dizzy. Very severe, sudden abdominal pain. Possible botulism symptoms - headache, double vision, vertigo or dizziness, loss of reflex to light. weakness, droopy eyelids, constipation, dry mouth, muscle and respiratory paralysis.


Now, you are asking, or desperately looking for something to minimize, or even cure these horrific pains


Believe it or not, there are a number of pretty good, or at least partially good, natural remedies and treatments for alleviating food poisoning symptoms, pains etc.


The following list is based on my own research, experiences and is of course not a guarantee of anything, but are at least harmless for most normally healthy adults (allergies not included).


I grouped the remedies by general types and noted them in order based on what I believe are their effectiveness and ease of use. Also, I would not recommend mixing or trying more than one of these remedies at a time. Wait at least 1-2 or more hours before trying something else, with the exception of the re-hydrating options, which should be consumed as often as your system will allow.


Liquids


Since liquids are the quickest and easiest thing to take and generally have the quickest affective response to the symptoms, they should be tried first.


Re-Hydrating Options - not necessarily going to alleviate symptoms but are a necessary treatment for replacing loss fluids and electrolytes:


Water, water with electrolytes i.e. commercially prepared products such as Gatorade, fortified bottled water, light fruit juices such as apple juice or young coconut water; Broth or bouillon Popsicle and frozen juice bars may also help.


Teas - both to re-hydrate and to help settle a nauseated stomach:


Ginger tea and ginger extract taken with lemon juice are considered highly effective for controlling nausea; To sooth the digestive tract which has been recently ravaged, good mint tea is recommended, and tannin in tea will help neutralize the poison and all mint calms the stomach; Mint, raspberry, chamomile and blackberry herbal teas.


High Acidic Liquids - believed to help kill off harmful microorganisms and alleviate symptoms. Potentially these are most effective if taken straight or with very little dilution. In either case, drink or sip slowly and also it's recommended to rinse your mouth and teeth with water, or a baking soda water mix right afterwards. The high acid can over time destroy the enamel on your teeth.


Apple cider vinegar - 1 to 2 table spoons diluted with about 8 oz of water, or add more water for drinkability. If possible or tolerable, may be more effective to take the tablespoons straight. The most effective apple cider vinegar is supposedly unpasteurized, undistilled and unfiltered, if you can find it, otherwise try any commercial version you can find.


Soft Drinks, especially coke - provided you drink them flat, otherwise the carbonation can potentially cause further irritation of the stomach. To promptly remove carbonation, quickly pour the soda back and forth between two glasses a number of times. Then drink or sip gradually.


Grapefruit Seed Extract - 2 to 5 drops in a glass of water.


Lemon juice - I've seen different options but primarily take the juice of 2-4 lemons and either drink the juice straight or mix with warm water and sip.


Absorbents


Some form of charcoal or activated charcoal or carbon. Charcoal is natural and provides very good absorption or binding properties. It is used by emergency medical personnel for initial treatment for a variety of poisonings. It can be purchased as a capsule or powder over the counter. Follow the directions on the label. Another simple and quick option is to toast bread until it is brownish if not burnt.


Bread or Crackers. Bread or crackers can soak up poisons thereby possibly minimizing their effects.


Herbs and Natural Antibiotics


These remedies are known for there antibiotic, antiseptic and antioxidant properties:


Garlic - The quickest way to get it into your system is to cut up a small clove, (a half moon shaped piece of the garlic bulb), remove the skin or husk and swallow with water as if swallowing a pill. Other cooked forms should be just as effective. One quick way is to microwave it, (1-2 minutes depending on how much) remove the husk, and mash it to form a paste. Mix the paste with some honey or sugar, salt and spread on toast or bread.


Goldenseal Extract - a root that is related to the buttercup family of plants. Usually mixed with water. Follow directions on label.


Barberry - a shrub where the root, bark and berries have medicinal properties. Can be purchased as capsules, and fluid extracts. Again, follow directions on the label.


Papaya fruit - eaten raw or after boiled in water. Works to smooth digestion and control nausea.


There are a number of other herbs, plant seeds, roots, leaves etc. such as basil, ginseng, astragalus, ginger root, licorice, peony root, cumin, and fenugreek that have also been noted as having some minimal affects on food poisoning symptoms. As with anything new, consult and do your own research as to dosages, or follow directions on labels or advise from doctors or others in the know before trying more exotic remedies.


Other Measures to Take


Room temperature - avoid excessive heat or cold which may exacerbate symptoms such as nausea. Adjust your thermostat for maximum comfort.


Stress - you are already undergoing abnormal stress. You need to minimize all other work, or personal related stresses. Turn on smoothing music or have visitors that will help with pleasant, agreeable conversation.


Sleep - sleep allows your body to divert energy to the problem and to recover from the stress and energy needed to fight against the illness. Even after taking any of the above remedies that may help to alleviate the pain and symptoms, you won't feel close to fully recovered until after a good long sleep.


The Don'ts


Anti-diarrhea products - Do not use over the counter medicines such as Imodium or Lomtil. Diarrhea is actually your body's mechanism of flushing out toxic microorganisms. These medicines may hamper the body's ability to fight the infection. Only after consulting with and getting your doctor's approval or possible prescription should you take something like this.


Antacid products - Stay away from these products as well. As you see above, one common remedy to treat the symptoms of food poisoning is to provide more acid to your system to assist in killing off the pathogens. Antacid products will actually reduce your systems acid response and could provide a more favorable environment for bacteria to multiply, thereby prolonging and possibly worsening your symptoms.


Don't encourage or induce vomiting. At least for food poisoning related symptoms, this is not likely to help your symptoms. Your body already will recognize it has an infection or intoxication and will respond accordingly. See below to determine at what point you think you should see or call a doctor.


Avoid certain foods during initial recovery. During the first few hours to a day or so after the symptoms (i.e. diarrhea and vomiting) have stopped you digestive system will still be sensitive and weak. Stay away from heavy, high-fiber, acidic, spicy, greasy, sugary or dairy foods. Instead try simple light foods such as cereal, crackers, broth, or other light soups.


At What Point Should You See a Doctor or Go to the Emergency Room?


There are certain groups of people that should contact a doctor or go to emergency at the first signs of food poisoning. These include infants or small children, elderly, anyone suffering from a chronic illness or weakened immune system (for example, HIV/AIDS, cancer and undergoing chemotherapy, or has kidney disease). These groups of people have the greatest risk of experiencing the more serious effects of food poisoning including death.


If you don not fall into this category, but you are experiencing the following more severe symptoms, then you need to call or go see your doctor or get yourself to the emergency room immediately:


Difficulty swallowing, speaking, or breathing Slurred speech, double vision or dizziness Muscle weakness or paralysis especially if occurring after eating mushrooms, canned food or shellfish Fever higher than 101degrees F along with abdominal symptoms Vomiting blood or having bloody bowel movements Nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea that lasts more than two days even if able to drink fluids Cannot take normal prescribed medications because of vomiting Obvious stomach or abdomen swelling Dark colored urine or complete stop in urination Extreme thirst, a dry mouth, and when you pinch the back of your hand, the skin stays pinched Skin and/or eyes turn yellow Persistent, localized abdominal pain Other family members or friends who ate the same thing are also sick Symptoms begin after recent foreign travel One or more joints swell or a rash breaks out on your skin


If you are unsure, do not take any chances and at least call your doctor. Food Borne illness severely sickens in the hundreds of thousands and kills thousands of people in the U.S. alone every year.