Food Technology and Processing

Food Safety, Food Security and Food Fraud

Food safety refers to routines within the preparation, handling and storage of food meant to prevent foodborne illness and injury. From farm to Manufacturing plant to fork, food products may face no.of health hazards during their journey through the supply chain. Safe food handling practices and procedures ought to be enforced at each stage of the food production life cycle so as to decrease to decrease the risks and prevent harm to consumers. Food Security, is that the condition within which all the individuals, in any respect times, have social, Physical and conjointly economic access to safe and nourishing food to satisfy their nutrition wants and food preferences for an energetic and healthy life. When a food supplier deliberately mislead its customer about the quality and contents of the foods they are purchasing. While food fraud is often influence by profit, some forms of food fraud is a direct threat to the health of customers and consumers.