Food safety is a scientific discipline describing the handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. This includes a number of routines that should be followed to avoid potentially severe health hazards. Food can transmit disease from person to person as well as serve as a growth medium for bacteria that can cause food poisoning. In developed countries there are intricate standards for food preparation, whereas in lesser developed countries the main issue is simply the availability of adequate safe water, which is usually a critical item.

The Food Safety and Economic Authority (ASAE) decided inspecting the Cathedral of Lisbon to check the hygiene conditions of the containers where the wine is stored and the hostije used in the celebration...

BBC News - A London UK branch of Starbucks was fined £12,000 ($22,883) after pleading guilty to four counts of food safety and hygiene breaches.

This article does a good job of educating about dangers in kitchen and highlighting importance of hygiene. There is another related blog on food safety.

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