Food Hygiene for the Hospitality Industry

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Discuss the causes of food poisoning

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Discuss the causes of food poisoning

Food poisoning causes

Food poisoning can be the result of many causes not only bacterial.

• Identify as many causes of food poisoning as you can.

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Discuss the causes of food poisoning

Foodborne

Illnesses or diseases caused by pathogens are known as foodborne diseases.

• Can you identify the main sources of these pathogens?

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Discuss the causes of food poisoning

Food poisoning

In 1988 Health Minister, Edwina Currie provoked outrage by saying that a specific bacterium was to be found in all of a certain product.

• What was the bacterium and what was the product?

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Discuss the causes of food poisoning

E.Coli 0157

Britain’s deadliest outbreak of E.coli occurred in 1996, when 21 people lost their lives after eating infected meat from a butcher in Wishaw, Lanarkshire. Another 400 were infected.”

• What are the possible sources of this outbreak?