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Discuss the effects of unsafe practices when preparing, cooking and serving food in health&social care setting?

I have been set this as an assignment in my Health & Social Care class at school.

This is a 'Merit' assignment, and so a fair bit of detail will be required. It also has to be set out as a 'colourful and stimulating booklet' in order to complete the task, so any answers to the question as well as ideas on how to present this assignment would both be greatly greatly appreciated.

Please can you actually type and post the answers rather than links or websites as I actually need the information, and am having trouble finding it, so links will not help.…Read more

2 yrs ago / Jelly

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If safe practices in a health and social care setting are not being followed then there can be many unpleasant outcomes such as food poisoning, diarrhoea, vomiting and nausea. There are three types of food contamination; biological contamination, physical contamination and chemical contamination. Biological contamination in food occurs when micro-organisms enter the food from different sources such as poor hygiene eg. Not washing your hands. Washing your hands before you handle food and before you touch different foods i.e. raw meat to vegetables can lead to food poisoning. This is very important because if it is not followed then cross contamination will occur causing many problems for both staff and service users. Service users in this case would be likely to get food poisoning whilst staff users would get complains from the service users about harmful food. You can prevent biological contamination by washing your hands every time you touch different foods, cleaning all equipment regularly and keeping the premises clean. Physical contamination is when something like a piece of glass, hair, fingernails, jewellery, paper ect. Fall into the food making it harmful to consume. You can avoid this by wearing appropriate clothing,...