World Food Safety Day-2020; COVID-19 and Food Safety Campaign
COVID-19 and Food Safety COVID-19 Pandemic affects the way food is produced and in turn the way food is produced affects how people or communities are protected against COVID-19. There is a connection between food, immunity, well-being and the body’s ability to prevent COVID-19 transmission. So, in order to prevent food-related or linked vulnerability to COVID-19, it is better we understood how to maintain food hygiene. There are five food hygiene best-practices we should adopt and maintain. Food hygiene is an important aspect of food production, preparation, consumption and preservation. By ensuring food hygiene, we are reducing the chances pathogens can colonise or make home in our foods through exposure. Pathogens are disease causing organisms. According to WHO, food hygiene are all those conditions and measures necessary to ensure the safety of food from production to consumption. Food can become contaminated at any point during slaughtering or harvesting, proce...