Food safety means that food is non-toxic and harmless, meets nutritional requirements and does not cause any acute, subacute or chronic harm to human health. According to the definition of food safety, food safety is "a public health problem in which toxic and harmful substances in food affect human health". Food safety includes both production safety and operation safety; Including result safety and process safety; It includes both present security and future security.
Second, the food purchase safety instructions
1. Pay attention to whether the operator has a business license and whether the subject qualification is legal.
2. Pay attention to whether the food packaging label is complete, and whether the food packaging indicates the product name, ingredient list, net content, factory name, address, telephone number, production date, shelf life, product standard number, etc.
3. Pay attention to the production date and shelf life of food, and pay attention to whether the food exceeds the shelf life.
4. Look at the color of food, don't be confused by too bright and beautiful food.
5. Look at the sanitary conditions of bulk food operators, and pay attention to whether there are health certificates, health certificates and other relevant certificates, and whether there are fly-proof and dust-proof facilities.
6. Look at food prices, pay attention to the market price comparison of similar foods, and rationally buy "discounted", "low-priced" and "promotional" foods.
7. Keep the shopping vouchers and relevant evidence properly, so as to serve as the basis for safeguarding rights in case of consumer disputes.
8. Do a good job in household food hygiene, and clean and disinfect all tableware.
9. Educate children not to buy food from unlicensed vendors, and not to buy food with incomplete labels such as no trademark, no production date, no production unit and no shelf life; Don't go to unlicensed stalls, fast food restaurants or small shops to buy food or eat. Timely deal with moldy, spoiled, unclean and expired food at home.
Third, children's food hygiene and safety education
1, most children like to eat snacks and put all kinds of things in their mouths, which is easy to cause food poisoning.
In addition to ensuring the hygiene of food procurement, storage and cooking, we should also educate children not to eat rotten and smelly food.
Children may eat toxic and harmful substances by mistake. For example, all kinds of colorful poisonous rat poison put at home, disinfectant mistakenly put in beverage bottles due to adult mistakes, and so on. May be eaten by children. Therefore, children should be educated not to pick up food and drink unknown substances at ordinary times.
4. Most of the drugs taken by children are beautiful in appearance and good in taste, which are deeply loved by children; Some children even eat medicine as a snack. Therefore, it is necessary to educate children not to take medicine casually. Once they want to take medicine, they must follow the doctor's instructions and take it under the guidance of adults.
Another aspect of food safety education is the cultivation of eating habits. Teach children to blow before eating hot soup or drinking boiled water to avoid burns; When eating fish, clean the fishbone to prevent it from getting stuck in the throat; Don't laugh and play while eating, lest food enter the trachea.