The Most Effective Way Of Handling Foodborne Illness

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Reports indicates that “there are 76 million cases of food poisoning in the United States each year, most of which go unreported”(Michon). Food; one of the pleasures of being a human being in this world, the way it looks, the way it smells, and the way it tastes. All that pleasure can be diminished by something deadly. How can we decrease the amount of foodborne illness within the culinary field?
Almost everyone knows the answers to that question. It depends on whether or not people take this matter seriously and if they are consistent about it. There are also cases where owners do not focus their attention on the most troublesome pathogens because they are worried about their own business functioning or even just ignorant about it. Foodborne illnesses are very dangerous to our health and some of them kill when people do not see it coming. Some people knows that, some of these owners and managers believes that its not going to happen to their foodservice business. They don’t realize it when they hiring people that are not educated in food safety handling. They must be made to understand. Despite the progression of proper food preparation, There are business owners that violate the basic principles of food safety with their choice of actions that jeopardize the very health of the public.
The pathogens are nothing new, the foodborne illnesses takes it back “23 centuries to the spring of 323 BC”(Anderson). There use to be a powerful ruler called Alexander the great who was at his prime was a successful conqueror decided to relax at Babylon. “According to Greek historians, he was staying at the Palace of Nebuchadnezzar when he developed a bad stomachache”(Anderson). Turns out that something was really wrong with him,...

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